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by perihelions 978 days ago
Or just use a sensible search engine like Kagi, which doesn't associate search queries with users (it doesn't need to; it's not in the business of selling users to ad brokers).

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-trust

It's weird how easily we've acclimatized to creepy tech-company spying. For Google to snoop on your searches, record them, and permanently archive them for retrieval years in the future was a very creepy and ignominious business model, and it's embarrassing how readily we all went along with it, for the convenience.