[da_big_ghey]

The thing that finally drove me off google wasn't data privacy, but how terrible it got in the past few weeks alone. It's started serving me crazy numbers of captchas whenever I'm on my VPN (personal server that I run), one after almost every query. I normally go through them with Buster, but after doing that maybe twice in a few minutes, it forces me to do the visual one.

Add to that how much google search results are these days already, and it's just not worth it anymore.

[SecurityLagoon]

Yeah Google is unusable over a VPN. The amount of captchas is crazy. Even on corporate connections with cookies blocked it can get antsy because it can't track you well enough.