I quit using Chrome and recently quit using Google as the default search. It is so hard to get away from them but I am making progress.
what search engine you use as default now?
Check out Kagi. It's paid but has subjectively higher quality search results and lacks BS that Google is full of these days.
DDG for the time being but honestly I am tempted by Kagi as well. Ad tech is cancer on the internet. I decided to quit Google after the trusted devices bullshit, but if I could remove junk listicles from my results that would be a big improvement.