More than that, any site you visit that is using Google services will make your browser do a request back to Google. Google knows what you are looking at and searching for on other non-google sites.
If you use Google DNS they know every site you go to, even if it doesn't use any Google service.
"We better leave him alone.. he's a patriot and he also seems like a crazy motherfucker." <-- their dossier on me based on my google searches
they get much more than that
More than that, any site you visit that is using Google services will make your browser do a request back to Google. Google knows what you are looking at and searching for on other non-google sites.
If you use Google DNS they know every site you go to, even if it doesn't use any Google service.
Vivaldi is a legit browser too.
I’ve been using Duck Duck Go search engine, also using Brave web browser.
A good list of alternatives. Thanks.