Ah yes, Pavel Durov, Tucker Carlson and "Vigilant Fox" the holy triumvirate of Good Information.
This would be a great thing to happen; under a Starmer gov't (and any inbound Reform administration) it is not gonna.
Also petition.parliament.uk is a tool created by Westminister to divert energy from real action to signing a petition. If you wanna get involved with doing something like this then look to and support Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, Privacy International etc.
Probably because they pull from Google
I wouldn't say my take is that I am not doing this because I have nothing to hide.
It is; I would be mindful that one blurred house on a street of unblurred houses probably creates more intrigue to anyone casually looking at that street.
A good amount of this is available on Mojeek: https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/08/mojeek-operators-a-guide.html (my employer).
Search is keyword based so the words should be matched in most cases without quotes (omitting stemming here as a possibility); you cannot -"two words" but you could -blind -desire
Damn they finally put socialism on the blockchain!
Firefox then additional hardening through arkenfox.js, minimal extensions - uBlock + Bitwarden.
Agree with a lot of the comments here, whether it's privacy or not wanting to use GAFAMmmy tools, there are better options than ungoogled chromium. For privacy: https://privacytests.org/ (maintainer works at Brave, but by and large this site is useful)

Josh
love me fediverse, 'ate me big tech, simple as if you don't like it, there's the border gateway protocol
work @ mojeek, the lil alternative search engine that can