In today’s chautauqua…
Still, their copy at that link uses the wording, “partnered with Microsoft”, and that doesn’t sit well with me at all when they go on to mention, “relevant advertising.” My personal trust level in them has vanished entirely.
I just want a search engine to search, fuck off with ads of any kind, relevant or not. There are plenty of other options that do exactly this, so why settle for a slightly more diluted poison when I could just drink water.
To add to the point about AI in search engines, arguably it would be better to just stop using those search engines and inflating their demand at all. This not only removes the need for yet-another-add-on, but it reduces the uniqueness of your browser fingerprint. Remember, the more add-ons and changes you make to your browser, the more unique you are to the world when browsing.
And no, DDG is not a friend. Besides having their own LLM-bot, they also still have microsoft ads fuckery going on.
edit: clarified details of each engine in the list, ads easily blocked with ublock
I literally gave a list in the first comment of this thread…