[unsignedint]

I've had my issues with Google ever since they ran a series of ads pretending to be for Blender but actually linking to a scam site. (I’m not sure if it’s gotten better since then.) While I do occasionally come across questionable ads on Bing, they’re definitely much less frequent. For what it’s worth, I’ve switched to using Edge as my browser as well, largely because Google refuses to address one of the most frustrating issues with its external link profile behavior. Specifically, Google forces external links to open in the last-used profile, rather than letting you choose, whereas Edge allows you to customize this behavior.

On top of that, Bing’s deep search feature has proven to be genuinely useful

[miki123211]

If you use a search engine, you need an Ad Blocker.

Not because "privacy:", not because "tracking", but because malicious ads exist, and you'll click on one eventually.

This is even more true for less technical family members.

[recursive]

You've completely overlooked the possibility of a search engine without ads. That's what I use.

[devsda]

If your search engine doesn't have ads that only means the adblocker has nothing to do except use some cpu cycles.

Those cycles are mostly earned back when you visit a link with ads (unless the search results are limited to ad free sites). So, it's still a net positive to have an ad-blocker.

[norman784]

> Specifically, Google forces external links to open in the last-used profile, rather than letting you choose, whereas Edge allows you to customize this behavior.

This is a neat feature, I used browserosaurus for a similar behaviour, but also that means I have multiple browsers open, one basically for each profile.