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Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says::Google shells out billions to be the default search engine on Apple's smartphones and on web browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox, the DOJ said.

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[–] PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s that extra crap that kills it for me.

I have all the add-ins, extensions, etc so my experience is fine (and I also just use DuckDuckGo). But I tried searching for something on my parent’s computer with Google… it was like the early 00s with all the crap before the actual results.

I immediately switched their default, but I could not believe it. Like why would you do that to your own site?

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What extensions will make my experience Better? I still Google but I don't wanna use it anymore

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

UBlock Origin is probably the main one.

[–] PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

honestly.... duckduckgo.com

you will still get most of the top results, but without all the nonsense.

Their browser is a bit shady and how it shares info with Microsoft / Bing but their search engine is solid.

Stupid name, good search results.