Whole bunch of secure competitors like Startpage, DuckDuckGo, etc.
No reason to let the overpaid twinkies at the ‘plex look up yer shorts.
YUP.
I eliminated everything I know to be associated with (big government) Google off my computer.
I use DuckDuck Go for searches.
I hate google and gmail! Spy agencies for their advertisers! Before that big East Coast storm, I sent a gmail to a friend advising him to get a home generator. Next time I went to a news site, like five minutes after the email, the whole right side of the page was filled with ads for home generators.
I use IxQuick. No cookies. No tracking your IP. Private.
The sad part is that EVERYTHING ends up going through IE. At least it looks that way to me when I do a disk clean up. I never use it directly but during the clean up there is/are tons of stuff “cleaned” from IE. Insidious windows stuff. Linux? Apple? Guess we just do the best we can before net neutering kicks in. :>}