Thank you for actually answering the question with a source, rather then hearsay or conjecture without sources.
To answer from a quote:
Examining trends over a longer timeframe, violent crimes are below levels seen in the first half of 2019, the year prior to the onset of the COVID pandemic and racial justice protests of 2020. There were 14% fewer homicides in the study cities in the first half of 2025 than in the first half of 2019. Similarly, reported aggravated assault (-5%), gun assaults (-4%), sexual assault (-28%), domestic violence (-8%), robbery (-30%), and carjacking (-3%) were lower in 2025
I would say they offer an answer where google may not as well, given the lower attention threshold people.
This is also a combination of years of SEO attempting to manipulate rankings, and the web becoming more diverse and complicated. Which makes finding answer more complicated, but in general I would agree that Google's algorithm has gotten worse and been drawn more to making money.
Beyond my frustration at this being buried in a video podcast, I also would rather promote why people should be worried about privacy in a concrete and direct way.
The Cascading Impact of Privacy Loss
Concrete Example: A 10-Year Timeline
Year 0: You're a healthy middle-class person who "has nothing to hide"
Year 3: Your insurance premiums inexplicably rise. You don't know your fitness tracker data was sold and correlated with your grocery purchases.
Year 5: Passed over for promotion. Algorithm flagged social media posts about work stress as "low resilience indicator."
Year 7: Attend peaceful protest. Face-recognition adds you to databases. Now randomly selected for "additional screening" at airports.
Year 9: Can't get affordable loan. Your zip code + purchase history + social network = high risk score. The specific formula is proprietary.
Year 10: Chronic condition develops. Can't get treatment covered - insurer says it's "pre-existing" based on data you didn't know they had from a DNA test you took for fun in Year 2.
Your lifespan: Statistically reduced by 5-10 years compared to privacy-protected cohort.
Privacy isn't about "having something to hide." It's the immune system of human dignity, economic fairness, political freedom, and literally - survival.
Without it, you become a data object to be optimized for others' profit and control, not a human with agency over your own life.
Jordan] was able to develop a transparent sticker that renders a license plate unreadable to the ALPR but still plainly visible to a human observer.
https://github.com/bennjordan
Once and a while I go to the Movies and often end up asking why I thought it was a good idea to pay exorbitant prices for the 30 mins of mixed ads/previews, all for a cliche plot of yet another reboot. Which inspires me to not go to the movies for another 6 months or year, and just go for a run outside.
What's your use case?