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I suggest moving to any other search engine, if anyone hasn't already. If duckduckgo isn't to your taste, startpage.com uses Google's database without pushing any of this nonsense.
We use noai.DuckDuckGo.com now.
I like this option a lot, but it's way more frustrating to set this as a default search engine on (all?) mobile browsers than it should be.
You've probably done it already, but a quick howto for anyone else (on Firefox Mobile):
I have routed duckduckgo.com to noai.duckduckgo.com on my computer
Been using DDG for years now, and have since turned off AI. My only issue with DDG, StartPage, and Ecosia, is that they don’t do their own indexing (AFAIK). I still use them, but have been looking into Kagi and Brave (I know they have their own issues as well) as I think they index independently of Google or Microsoft. With not having an independent index, then the search engine is at the mercy of the companies that do. Such as is Google wants to remove or deprioritize something, it would also be seen in StartPage. Again, that my understanding and it may be wrong.
The largest fully independent generalist search engines are Yandex (which is no better than Google/Bing, unless you want something that doesn't deprioritize sites for DMCA reasons) and Mojeek. You may want to read A look at search engines with their own indexes, although it's about a year out of date now.
We started a year or two ago as well, but our son is autistic and it’s hard to get him to change. He finally seems to have settled in now.
Kagi is the best few bucks I spend each month.
I'll probably end up going back to Kagi when I'm working again. Can't justify the extra expenses right now between them and a few others I'd like to pay for.
Another good one and you can also self-host your own instance, is SearXNG.