I still use chrome for the moment with AdAway on mobile, adblock on PC… I accidentally went to CNN the other day with adblock turned off… my God, have you seen it lately? It’s a god damn hell scape.

https://pureinfotech.com/redirect-search-widgets-links-chrome-firefox-instead-edge-windows-11/

just redirect it to another browser. Then you can use it like a search engine.

There are ways to make the search bar useful