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Google Search App Stopped Working For A Few Hours Last Night.
(www.seroundtable.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Yeah but this requires you to use an entirely different launcher which has its own caveats...
I'm not aware of major downsides to using a different luncher.
The biggest incovience is initial setup and putting your home screen apps back where they belong.
Spend a few hours to escape to some of google bloat and set your search bar to use Firefox (which has ublock support).