TFA links to this comprehensive review of airfare search websites, the top ten of which all outperform Google Flights. You may not have even heard of their top picks like Skiplagged, Momondo, and Skyscanner.

https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848046-the-10-best-and-w...

Momondo, Skyscanner, TripAdvisor, Expedia.

Those are all scammy sights covered in ads and tracking by 30-60 ad companies. I prefer to be tracked by just one and not served ads

Use an adblocker _and_ visits sites that are more likely to show you a full selection of flight info and the actual lowest fares?

It’s a valid point, but also feels like Stockholm Syndrome in a way.

Why not accept our abuser, if they protect us from everyone else also trying to abuse us ?

How is any of those better than Google Flights?

This is arguably significantly better (if you know how to use it that is) than flights.google, but Google bought them a few years ago:

https://matrix.itasoftware.com/

??? I'm asking a genuine question, what sort of comment is that?

I have used expedia and kayak and kiwi in the past, I've never got a better quote than google flights. I've also never got a better quote from the airline directly than via google flights. Hence my (obviously very stupid) question...