Comment by brynnbee
8 hours ago
Search result ads are some of the most harmful ads, and Google's ads in particular are probably the number one cause of fraud, scams, and malware on the entire planet. It's a shame that Firefox whitelisted these, but I'm sure they did it both because Google pays for their existence but also Apple themselves probably wagged their finger for some reason.
I don't know why people still use Google. They've sold out and literally been documented reducing search quality to serve more ads.
I use https://search.brave.com by default everywhere and for things even they don't want to show you, there's https://yandex.com.
I only use google as a last resort.