Slop Evader - I've grown distrustful of web searches

Web search has been getting increasingly enshittified over the past few years. Everyone knows that, not a secret. Recently, and in large part due to LLMs, this has reached a breaking point for me where I frequently am unable to find useful information regardless of search engine. My web browser routines are simple. If I want a specific kind of information, I first go to sites that I like (newspapers, wikis, forums) directly by the link, and if I need to find a specific page on them I do a search with Startpage,1 ie. "audio configuration gentoo wiki". For the final segment, which is general information that could lie anywhere (food recipes, specific animal images, information about a location), I do a normal search with a search engine. For me, it is this final one that feels as if it's been poisoned. This is where the browser extension Slop Evader comes into the picture. Quite simply it allows you to automatically query Google2 to only show results before the launch of ChatGPT in…