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Thanks for the Ecosia tip!

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"The Daleks Are Here!" made me laugh. We're not there yet, but Who knows...

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May 21·edited May 21Liked by Orli Auslander

AI will NEVER compete with your awesome illustrative style!!

And I'm not very smart about search engines.... my chr*me tells me that to get future chr*me updates I'll need blah blah operating system, which my hardware won't take. This Ecosia.... would I need the latest Mac OS to use it, is question to the internet g*d's....

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Compete? No. Steal? Definitely. But many thanks!

If the internet gods are anything like the Abrahmic ones, asking for their help isn't worth the lifetime of guilt and demands for eternal devotion. Good luck!

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May 21Liked by Orli Auslander

This article was the last straw, Orli. I opted out of Google completely this morning, closed my account, and selected Duck Duck Go as my primary search engine. Now... let's see what the repercussions are... Thanks for finally pushing me over the edge.

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Sorry to push but good for you. One down, 2.5 billion to go.

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addendum: FYI - I discovered that when I closed my Google account, I lost access to YouTube. They locked me out! The bastards! I wonder if there is a work around?

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I'm no techy but I think you can sign into YT with a non google email or watch YT as a guest.

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Thanks. There is usually a back-door to anywhere, but I can't always find it. I will follow up, Orli. Thank you.

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May 21Liked by Orli Auslander

Tried to research radical career change into writing this weekend.

Ramped up anxiety to lay-on-couch-and-stare-into-space by researching job options and finding most writing ones were in training AI.

Wrote ”find the funny” at the top of a legal pad.

Left rest of the page blank.

This helped. My new search engine is Ecosia. Take that Google.

Thank you!

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You wrote 3 words on your legal pad - you're already ahead. Most of us just stare at the blank page.

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Step Four- Watch the computer explode.

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Step Five - Laugh your arse off.

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May 21Liked by Orli Auslander

'Revenge' searches show alarming uptick. Oops.

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What about Duckduckgo? Which I use all the time? To !@#$%^&*(!! with Google.

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I hear others like that one too.

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Yeah, it's got everything "G" has but doesn't track you.

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I may vote for it in the upcoming election.

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