sounddrill 
Up until yesterday, I used to use google as my primary #searchengine. I tried to move away to my own home-hosted and VPS hosted #searxng instances back in early 2023 but it did not stick.
I kept trying to ditch #Google but I was never happy with the alternatives. It just felt different. Until yesterday. I was sick of the constant captchas I was getting through Google.com not liking the cromite browser I was using on my phone or that I don't have an account logged in.
I realized that the circumstances were quite similar to my fediverse switch and felt an urge to not put up with this and switch. (And write a blog about it)
Now I'm on #DuckDuckGo. It's a nice, simple life :D
https://sounddrill31.github.io/blog/p/migrations/searchengines/fossconfessions/
Migrations/SearchEngines/FOSSConfessions
I have a confession to make. As much as I love FOSS, privacy, etc, I have surrendered myself to big tech. But hey, that’s changing :D\nThis blogpost got a bit longer than I expected but it outlines my migration from a big social media platform called Reddit to the fediverse way back in 2022/2023, and why I had to recently do this again yesterday with my search engine.\nThis migration stuff is a work in progress across the board because change is something I find very hard and time consuming. I plan to migrate a few more things soon!\n