Yeah, I'm on the fence too about paying for now, but trying it out now with the initial free searches. Google gradually got so much worse over the years. Infested with SEO-optimized shitty results.
It seems to be quite popular in the HN community.
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You can turn a lot of the ad stuff in Google off in your ad settings...the ad tracking stuff and personalized ads and shit. You gotta go deep into your Google ad settings but they are there because I have most of them changed from standard
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