It all of a sudden became TERRIBLE and now I can’t find anything? When did this happen? Why did this happen?

  • SCmSTR@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You really have to be careful. Sometimes browser add-ons can really fuck with your search results. A YouTube enhancer extension was a culprit at one point. If you’re on Android, it’s possible for apps to do this too. Stuff is constantly being patched and blacklisted, but it might not be purely the search engine’s fault. I don’t main Google anymore, but I still occasionally do use it when other engines let me down, and Google has been different enough.

    I’m not saying it’s worse or not worse, but that, if it’s REALLY bad, it’s also possible it’s something else.

    Edit (a week later): no, Google has actually gotten weirdly worse recently. Confirmed on multiple PCs. Not sure if it’s just Google, the entire spread of the internet, or just search engines getting SEOd.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think ublock origin is the only extension I have on my browser - I prefer not to let some random extensions have access to everything I do on my web browser. Who knows what data they’re logging