@adamconover Also, this crossed my feed:
It's an article on how to coach ChatGPT to give you correct answers. But if you know enough about what you're asking to coach it, why use it all? You obviously know enough to just go look the stuff up yourself.
@haelos @adamconover Multi-faceted question.
Use incognito mode when searching google. You'll get actual results since there's no info to use to target ads.
Use duckduckgo
Use Wikipedia directly
use "-youtube" in your google search to discourage it from handing you youtube videos. There's nothing worse than "HEY GUYS" when all you want is a simple answer"
Also, all your friends on facebook that share bitmap images of text instead of just sharing the text are the problem. Shun them.