Duckduckgo isn't perfect but it's not bad. If I don't find what I need then I google
I think there might even be search engines that will also search google (but they do it via their own made up accounts so its never actually tied to you personally).
Honestly I think the Google hate is misplaced as hell as they give you shitloads of control over your data, and you can absolutely request them to give you all of it that they have and/or that they delete it. I really think people's problem is coming to grips with how predictable or nothing special they really are, and the data just throws it back in their face. I haven't seen any evidence that Google has done the Facebook type of shit other than when it made sense to (i.e. have Google Assistant listen for keywords so that they can kinda preload things).
My beef with Google at this point is that all of their stuff other than search (and maybe Maps, but they'll probably fuck that up again before long) is still wonky as hell. They just killed Music to somehow roll it into YouTube service, but that's so half-baked that its not a replacement. And YouTube itself has plenty of issues (although Google has been trying to address them some; and a lot of the issues there are that people don't want to take any responsibility for their own behavior - i.e. you should be monitoring what your kids watch, you should know better than to just keep listening to political trash, you should be capable of not being a fucking idiot when it comes to vetting your news sources, etc.).
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