On the frontend.

Change your feedback, get the refund, and change it back.

If anything, your browser is doing shady things. Or an extension you use.

despite using a non-US based web server, and NOT google, my search for the site was altered during results loading, and even when the url was typed in, I was redirected twice…

What does that mean?

I’d look into MongoDB Atlas for the database itself and Google Cloud Storage or AWS S3 for storing images and videos with the link to their sources stored in the database.

Very fitting!

You should be able to do that with a ublock origin filter.

Maybe ask on the community: !ublockorigin@lemmy.ml

Duckduckgo’s version is so much better. Unlimited aliases for free.

It’s a trade-off, because they often also want their entire article to be crawled by Google.

“it could happen here” posted in “world news” 😂

Yeah, because books, the web, and educated people have a liberal bias.

Some developers will publish their apps on github, you can download it, and use a different app to get the apk file from the app you get from the play store, and compare the hash of the file. If they’re identical then Google didn’t meddle with it. If they’re not, either Google did, or the developer releases a different version to Google Play.

Google playstore does not inject data in app packaging because it doesn’t own the signature key. F-Droid, however, does. I mean, they own the signature, but they do not inject or modify apps. They could, though.