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Yes. I’m using the same search methods I’ve always used that used to get me relevant results, and I get a bunch of fucking sponsored links instead. I’ve noticed lately that if the result of a search is a YouTube video and I click on it, it doesn’t go to YouTube but opens up as a search result and plays me ads somehow bypassing my adblocker that works just fine in actual YouTube. More than once after the ad was done, the video refused to load, which was utterly infuriating.

Google assistant on my phone has also become garbage. They changed the functionality of the few key things I liked to use, and now it’s totally useless to me. Google is swirling down the shitter faster than yesterdays tacos. Honestly, if it wasn’t for email, photos, and using an Android phone, I’d probably be done with them entirely.

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Use Ublock Origin to block all ads. Takes 20 seconds to install, and works on all browsers

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Also switch to Firefox, it has built-in protections that Google Chrome (of course) doesn’t have

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Technically it takes a while to setup tho

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In 5 years and 5 devices, I’ve never changed the defaults

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No, it does not. I end up installing Firefox multiple times a week and it takes less than a minute to add uBlock origin ande enable all the extra filters that it offers

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I am using Ublock Origin in Firefox, it still somehow slipped an ad in there.

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https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-user-features

Read Dynamic Filtering and Blocking Mode. You still have to manually block the ads, but you can block it across every website.

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You can get a degoogled phone but they all seem under par with flagships.

I was looking at the fairphone5 but I’m on the fence. I might just stick with my current phone which is like 4 years old.

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You should look into getting an unlocked pixel with graphene on it

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Saw that recently. Will check it out

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it might be difficult here. I’m in Korea. ie the land of Samsung.

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