Especially since stuff you want to watch changes services all the time.

It’s like if your DVDs of the star wars trilogy got replaced by the Brady bunch and then told you to pay more for that privilege.

Oh yeah I remember the AltaVista, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, and Dogpile days. I agree searxh has come a long way. I’m just saying Google used to be better in that old sweet spot.

I mean google was already like this before GenAI.

Its a nightmare to find anything you’re actually looking for and not SEO spam.

Gen AI cuts out some of that noise but it has its own problems too.

I made the switch and never looked back.

Only thing it cost me was recently Apex Legends but I can deal.