Your post may have just convinced me to try ddg. My problem with Google is that increasingly it does not give me what I am looking for and instead gives me what it thinks I should want. From your description it sounds like ddg is what Google used to be.

privacy focused … called qwant

Hmm.

I’m glad the ceo at the time was wise enough to recognize what she had and made the os open source, and still somehow managed to sell it in the end. Web os lives on tvs now, although many of it’s benefits are wasted there.

User experience beats everything else. It sounds like some essential components were never finished

Once Firefox lost session manager and downthemall, it was dead to me.

Nowadays I use edge. All the benefits of chrome plus it’s leaner.

I use kiwi browser on phones for the addons, and because it’s faster than Firefox

How is this being upvoted? Baldurs Gate 3 is a new release. In fact it’s so new that I think this is literally part of their marketing campaign, and good on them because the game looks amazing!

Nah, I’m not letting the racists claim redneck. I’m not letting them take Jeff Foxworthy

I hate concern trolls even more than I do being confused with a nazi, and I’m pretty average so ymmv

In what fucking universe does the director of an absolute bomb have power over a lifelong actress?

Louie right after the disaster of pootie pie was quite a bit different than Louie at the height of his career.

It was a weird moment, and it is tangentially related since he is an example of a guy who got inordinately horny the moment he felt a connection with a woman he felt was a kindred, but what happened with Louie is quite a bit different than what happened with Weinstein or Cosby. It’s quite arguable that he had less power in that exchange.

That people mix these things up says something about society but I’m not sure what.