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fix(theseus): stop tagging every Google search with pws=0

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pws=0 (personalisation off) is the parameter rank-tracking scrapers put on
every query, and Google weighs it when deciding to serve the "unusual
traffic" check. With cookies cleared on quit the personalisation it turned
off was already minimal, so the flag bought nothing and made every search
from Theseus look like a bot's. hl and gl stay: they keep Google from
answering with a consent redirect or a region-detect start page.
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@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ async function loadHermesLib() {
// URL routing is identical for all — kind and tier are display-only grouping.
const SEARCH_ENGINES = {
duckduckgo: { kind: "search", tier: "catalog", name: "DuckDuckGo", sym: "🦆", fav: "duckduckgo.com", url: (q) => "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=" + encodeURIComponent(q) },
google: { kind: "search", tier: "catalog", name: "Google", sym: "🔵", fav: "www.google.com", url: (q, h = {}) => `https://www.google.com/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(q)}&hl=${h.hl || "en"}&gl=${h.gl || "us"}&pws=0` },
google: { kind: "search", tier: "catalog", name: "Google", sym: "🔵", fav: "www.google.com", url: (q, h = {}) => `https://www.google.com/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(q)}&hl=${h.hl || "en"}&gl=${h.gl || "us"}` },
brave: { kind: "search", tier: "catalog", name: "Brave", sym: "🦁", fav: "search.brave.com", url: (q) => "https://search.brave.com/search?q=" + encodeURIComponent(q) },
bing: { kind: "search", tier: "catalog", name: "Bing", sym: "🔎", fav: "www.bing.com", url: (q) => "https://www.bing.com/search?q=" + encodeURIComponent(q) },
startpage: { kind: "search", tier: "catalog", name: "Startpage", sym: "🛡️", fav: "www.startpage.com", url: (q) => "https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=" + encodeURIComponent(q) },