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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been using it as my main search engine for around a year now. I accidentally used google today to look up “best screwdriver sets” and the results were all ads instead of results with screwdriver set reviews. I put the same thing in DuckDuckGo and immediately got relevant results.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Googled the pirate bay and it wouldnt.

Unless the first link after a link to the wiki, www. piratebayorg.org is the correct place to go..

Duckduckgo first result was the correct result

[–] Leg@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Odd. I just tried to google "pirate bay" and the top result was correct. Personalized results?

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Must be