I don't, anymore. Just as I now don't trust and download a gazillion apps on my phone anymore.

I've personally switched to https://duckduckgo.com/lite (wished it was available in dark-mode, may be I should write a greasemonkey script) and make it a point to change search engine defaults on all phones in the household and remove or disable google-search and chrome apps.

For most basic searches, ddg/lite works just as good and is lighting fast. I do find myself !g redirecting searches to Google which admittedly does a remarkably better job at answering certain class of queries. I used to search on startpage.com, before it sold to an ad-company, which proxies Google search results minus the tracking and ads.

Speaking of proxy search engines, there're various searx mirrors too, but I haven't yet used them.