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[darkemeralds]

 Where are people going for online search now that Google has utterly succumbed to enshittification?

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[darkemeralds]

That's a second vote for Duckduckgo. Honestly, I've disregarded it because the name is kinda silly--but then...google. I mean...

[ranunculus]

I've used Duckduckgo for some years. Don't do many photo searches tho. I do use Google once in a long time, if I think I'm not finding something. Keeping your cookies cleared out defeats some of Google's ad stuff. I clear almost all cookies a couple times a month. It is annoying, but works well.

[darkemeralds]

Good suggestion. I dread all the re-logins and stuff, but there doesn't seem to be a perfect solution so it's a question of balancing priorities, I guess.

[ranunculus]

If you are using Firefox you can clear individual cookies. Settings>privacy>cookies Doesn't help much if you have months and months of them, but for a few or even a few dozen it works well to avoid all those re-log in's. I -think- there is a way of telling Firefox to remember some of them routinely even if you "clear all" but I've never dug deep enough to set that kind of thing up.

[darkemeralds]

Thanks. Firefox is the browser that keeps being mentioned. I haven't used it in a hundred years. I should give it another look.