i don’t want to offend anyone, but some open source/privacy enthusiasts dislike google, but why?? google has made chromium, android, etc and most of the things they do are open source, and not only that, they also support creative commons media or public domain. i know the privacy concernes they may have, but they would never do anything bad to you. i love google personally because of their commitment to open source software.
Because their core product - search, now sucks. Why? Page 1 is mostly ads. Compared to other search tools they are a much poorer user experience. Hell even Bing is better. They push their Bing chat based engine but you know what? It does a pretty good job without destroying what I came to do with the tool which is search for stuff.
i understand, thank you!! i use duckduckgo in google chrome but just because it’s open source, and because it is simpler.
duckduckgo search is certainly not open source.
Chrome also isnt open-source.
Chromium is, but Google mainly uses it to gain size and push standards that benefit them.