So not entirely correct, the reason this is legal is because the amendment was only for letters (not numbers) and in fact the legal committee agreed that it allowed the creation of new numbers.
If youtube figures out that you're a single male, nothing will stop then from throwing Andrew Tate and other right wing garbage in your feed. Literally as soon as I got into a relationship I immediately stopped getting them. Now I get weird relationship based stuff. But it was so bad, I blocking channels but new channels kept getting in there.
I get what google does, but I find the trade-off the be really convenient.
A funny creepy story I have is that I used to use a specific video to go to sleep, and apparently yt's algorithm got so good at figuring out my sleep schedule that it would start recommending me that video when I started getting ready for bed.
I really don't get duckduckgo. I use firefox and all for privacy and cause it's better, but I've found duckduckgo to be quite inferior to google's search. Is there some nuances I just don't understand about duckduckgo?