Move to Firefox (or any non-Chromium browser really) and use a different search engine that’s not run by a giant corporation. I use DuckDuckGo.
Doesn’t DuckDuckGo just use Bing and suppress search results?
It supposedly uses Bing and several other search results while suppressing content mills. I’m open to using anything though, DDG just happens to be the more privacy oriented one I went with.
Didn’t they suppress Russian related search results?
Good thing too, no need for “info” from that troll factory calling itself a country.
So, you’re okay with being under the control of a company only showing you what they want.
What I want is no Russian trolls or misinformation, so yes.
So, you are okay with your search provider deciding what is misinformation and what is not.
Seems like a slippery slope to me.
Nope!
Your understanding of the troll factories is quite off. According to the ex-employees and the publicly available social media accounts data, the average troll paid by the Russian government is someone who poses as a person living in the West and even uses some Western talking points, making them hard to distinguish from a real person. They also get people in the West out to protest for BLM and guns rights, for and against immigration, and other causes with the goal of facilitating discord, which then creates headlines in the Western media, not Russia Today as you’d expect.
And yet those russian sources keep getting pushed by those same trolls… Strange…
Any examples?
Yes, so use SearX which uses all the search engines, including google, duckduckgo and Bing, but shares 0 of your data with them.
Yeah but you either have to use some rando’s instance or host your own. That’s not exactly safe or easy to use.
It’s a nice project though.
You can always change instance every few searches in case there is logging
Who tf is going to do that when you can just use an alternative?
I do it. There is no alternative.
Yes.
Switch to brave browser & brave search completely.It’s independent.
I’d rather put a microphone in the toilet and listen to you take a dump.
That’s a big negative.
Brave is chromium
Or just pay Kagi. If you’re not paying they’re gonna have to get their money somewhere, and search is expensive.
if it’s not open source I don’t trust it
Perhaps I’ll switch to Firefox when they actually start getting things together and start implementing the things people ask for instead of actively removing functionality deemed “too complicated”
Sadly the default one of google 🫠
I started getting targeted ads on DDG this morning. They were targeting my search terms, and Microsoft had bought the targets. Getting Edge ads in DDG is a hard stop for me.
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Leave Big G in the dust, ads on their video platform are just grift and lust.
Are you surprised? Chrome, Chromebook and Android are mere vessels to get data.
In other words, water is wet, grass is green, and the sky is blue.
And this is a surprise for whom?
Next they’ll tell me that Alexa and Kindles are just there to sell me stuff.
Pretty much everything Google makes exists solely to power it’s ad service - including it’s search engine. That’s literally their whole business. Did anyone think that Google was building browsers just as a fun weekend project?
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Blud no shit
In fact, we all exist to serve Google. Hail the blessings of the corporation!
Android is google. Isn’t it?
the Assistant team has admitted that the product does not have a market fit on mobile
How is there not a market demand for a voice assistant on mobile devices?
I read this too and scratched my head. I would argue that voice assistants are more useful on a mobile device than a stationary one 💀
I’d guess because there is an OS assistant that’s hard to change.
I have ecosia set as my default search engine on chrome. and only use chrome for those instances when firefox doesn’t serve the need.
I’ve been loving Kagi, but I have no particular need for their browser.
ETA: Oh, I see it’s only for iOS and macOS anyway. Maybe that ecosystem needed it, but I wouldn’t know.
Yep, though Linux is coming next “soon”.
I like that Orion (via Kagi as the business) is directly aligned with MY interests as a human.
Safari, I’m generally a fan of too as Apple is–for now–generally aligned with customer; but mostly annoyed that they force an extension to use a search not in their list. Also find the adblocking just “ok” in Safari.
Apple is generally aligned with the customer
Fucking lol
Fun community. First and last time I’ll be chiming in here.
Ignore that dickhead hahaha
Lemmy has the kind of hate boner for Apple that I had when I was a teenager, so I just assume these twats are still teens and will learn someday.
Yeah, he probably has an Android 🤮
If they release a non-chromium windows counterpart (not sure if WebKit works on windows?) I’d seriously consider it. Eagerly awaiting it!
…obviously.
