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This marks a cultural shift. In 2018, DuckDuckGo wrote about the Filter Bubble, explaining how Google hides relevant results based on personalized, biased preconceptions about you.
Google hit back, implicitly admitting filter bubbles would be bad, but claiming they weren't guilty of it.
From Google, which manages to entirely ignore the critiques:
But now, search personalization is no longer a taboo. Google is attacking DuckDuckGo for not doing it. And other corporations, like Kagi, dream of a day when data acquisition can be done so readily that the filter bubble will only ever tell you what you already believe:
Google Search gives me nothing but trash these days. Poisoned by SEO and advertisements, while DDG often gives me at least real results.