• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Hang on now. I’m shopping on the Internet because I don’t know how to buy stuff in real life.

      How am I supposed to not use Google?

      • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        Go into your browser settings and pick a search engine thats not google

        Im currently using DuckDuckGo No ai

        I used Ecosia for years up until recently. everyone has a preference, but there are plenty of other options.

        • GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Doesn’t DDG literally just feed it through Bing instead?

          And Google is able to harvest your information in a million other ways, literally from you simply going to a website.

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            3 months ago

            Well IDK, I tried Bing directly a few times and it would just grab one of the keywords in the query and then completely ignore the others. Unless it’s a conspiracy of the big DuckDuckGo with Macroslop…