You must remember that companies such as Alphabet and Meta, apparently give away services for free and so consequently have huge use bases for their apps. However the cost to you is usually some information about your usage, which they can then monetise, because it takes a lot of money to run Google, Facebook etc.
Sometimes this compromises your privacy.
Here is a link to a Guardian article looking at why France fined Google and Facebook for tracking users and it is all to do with cookies.
France fines Google and Facebook €210m over user tracking | Data protection | The Guardian
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Further Reading
Now may be you should look at DuckDuckGo:
DuckDuckGo – you probably have not heard of this search engine – Smart Thinking Solutions
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