Google has introduced changes to its sign in prompting criticism from Cryptographers:
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/
and altered search results to have autoplay video queues:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/24/google-will-start-showing-relevant-video-clips-in-search-results.html
Any relation to mid-terms? These don't give me the warm fuzzies….