Use anything other than google. Which I have done so for years with little difficulty. On a vary rare occasion I make an exception but even then %99 of the time Searx does the job for me.
Help me understand what I don't then. Why would anyone wise ever trust someone they don't know running closed source software of any kind on "their" computer?
I don't trust that asshole. I know him enough to not trust him let alone make my computer follow his directions. Why use anything but FOSS?
Fanbase because the philosophy is based on owning your computer. If some asshole you don't know needs your trust to run their closed-source-no-one-really-knows-what-it-actually does inside what is no longer really your computer just because you paid for it then here...here's a dum-dum. Hands you a sucker.
What's wrong about that to you? I've a laptop and a phone from them and I'm happy with them.