Is wow.com Safe?

A search engine owned by Aol, which happens to be owned by Verizon Media. URL:https://www.wow.com/ inetnum: ***** - ***** netname: YAHOONET descr: Yahoo! Europe country: CH admin-c: YEU-RIPE tech-c: YEU-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA remarks: INFRA-AW mnt-by: YAHOO-MNT created: 2009-06-08T14:25:29Z last-modified: 2009-06-08T14:25:29Z source: RIPE role: Yahoo Europe Operations Department address: Yahoo Europe Operations address: 125 Shaftesbury Avenue address: London address: WC2H 8AD remarks: trouble: ***** admin-c: NA1231-RIPE admin-c: NO1883-RIPE tech-c: NA1231-RIPE tech-c: IG1154-RIPE tech-c: NO1883-RIPE nic-hdl: YEU-RIPE mnt-by: YAHOO-MNT created: 2005-02-21T10:54:13Z last-modified: 2021-03-19T14:36:30Z source: RIPE # Filtered abuse-mailbox: ***** % Information related to '*****AS42173' route: 212.82.100.0/22 descr: Yahoo-EU-NET origin: AS42173 mnt-by: YAHOO-MNT created: 2009-06-08T14:19:30Z last-modified: 2009-06-08T14:19:30Z source: RIPE

It used to be an interesting little site when I first visited it in 2011. I did not know what it was, but it was cute and friendly. I liked it despite it being nothing. In 2012 when I tried to visit it, it was a redirect to games.com, which was rather disappointing. I wanted to know why the change happened. In 2013, it became a more stripped-down version of AOL's search engine. I trusted it at first and liked it, but upon using it more I found parts of it to be disturbing. The first strike was the poor results upon searching. I found out later that AOL was part of the US government spying program, PRISM. I do not think tracking users is a good idea, so I stopped using wow.com. In addition, now ads from wow.com are spamming my Google and StartPage search results.