[theiz]

Google has these options, but these are solved by AI. So with that you come in a catch22: people want personalised content, but rather not have their data given away. If you open YouTube without login, you get all kind of rubbish so you want to login. Probably this is by design: you want what google wants: results based on your data. Both happy. Now if there was a privacy friendly way of doing this, I am all for using that. I just don’t see how, and I don’t see who wants not to gain a profit if you would have that data. So the next google probably is another google.

[thesuitonym]

If Google has these options, why can't I search for any image and have it not return any Pinterest results? If I search with -site:pinterest.com, I get Pinterest's million alternate tlds, if I just search for -pinterest, Google decides, in their infinite wisdom, that I didn't actually mean that and ignores it.

[theiz]

Probably because the AI thinks it is better to ignore your input because it can be profitable to give you the Pinterest results.