- Exact token searches (quoting, + prefix) are completely gone.
- Doesn't work properly until JS loads, leading to false starts.
- Screws with browser history so that often I cannot hit back to go to the results again, I land on the previous page before the search, and going forward goes to the result I clicked.
- 80% of the time I can't copy or save images on mobile. (This one is especially irksome).
- Shows nearly a full page grid of shopping results I don't care about if I search for any product. If I wanted shopping results I would use the shopping tab!
- Adds :~:#text= to URLs I click into, making sharing links I search up obnoxious.
It just goes on and on. These days I use Kagi, despite the friction/flakiness of the plugin on iOS.
Edit: looks like the newer 2.0 plugin just got updated a couple days ago to supposedly fix the lack of redirects. Seems to work so far! And now it redirects on any search engine site you allow the extension on, and doesn't on ones you don't, which is a fair bit nicer if a bit confusing to configure.