On: Tech Companies Are Ruining Their Apps, Websites, Internet

[Animats]

I hadn't realized how bad Google has become until I tried it without ad filtering.

[germainelol → Animats]

want, where is that setting?

[Animats → germainelol]

I use my own Sitetruth add-on. There must be others, though.

[hedora → Animats]

I just use duck duck go, though they finally copied Google’s “fuck it, you probably didn’t mean to type those “”’s. Here are some irrelevant corners of the internet! YOLO!” feature.

Ironically, Google now honors quotation marks again (returning zero results, like ddg should), but then it produces pages of “how to use a search engine” drivel, below the “no results found” message.