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I did that, and started getting flagged as a bot. Had to search elsewhere(Kagi) full time, or else suffer endless "find a bike" nonsense.

I think Google hates the loss of no/few ads or lame suggestions.

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Google thinks the same of me and I don't even edit the URL. I can have a session working just fine one night and come back the next day, open a new tab to search for something, and get captcha'd to hell. I'm fairly sure they just mess with Firefox on purpose. I won't install Brave, Chrome, or Edge out of principle either. Safari works fine, but I don't like it.

Google will captcha me on the second or third search if I try to use the "site":" advanced keyword to narrow down search

I'm sorry I know how to use your tool?? ? Didn't you put these keywords in to be used?

Google has gotten amazingly hostile toward power users. I don't even try to use it anymore. It almost feels like they actively hate people that learned how to use their tools

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