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Not sure, how long Google is at it, it may just be new to me, but today the wife googled for something, and she couldn't get there as the response was "can not connect". "Fix the internet NOW!", was my order.

Analysing the link on Google's page, it displayed the link as https://www.example.com/, but it actually goes to https://googleadservices.com/?blabla, which is blocked by our DNS, therefore the error.

Displaying one link, but going to another is misleading, lying, tactics of phishers and scammers, IMO.

Is this new, or is it just me, who never clicks on the first result of a Google search?

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[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I have my own SearXNG too, albeit hosted on a VPS. However, the difficulty I was talking about was in convincing other people to switch.