Comment on Google made it easier to turn off personalized search results
hate2bme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Will this make google not suck? Doubtful but would like an honest reply from someone who has tried it.
Comment on Google made it easier to turn off personalized search results
hate2bme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Will this make google not suck? Doubtful but would like an honest reply from someone who has tried it.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This change makes Google suck a tiny bit less by empowering users to disable some of the surveillance driven adtech in search results.
Is it a meaningful improvement in how Google operates at scale? No, not really. The DOJ is advocating the complete breakup of Google, the divestiture of Android and Chrome as well as reining in Google’s AI training data scraping - turning off personalization more easily doesn’t even register on that scale.
hate2bme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thanks for the reply. Sounds like it will still suck. What engine do you recommend? I use the duck
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Most of the time Google is still the most useful. If I care about privacy I use duck duck go via TOR.
Apparently You.com and perplexity are pretty good on some topics according to friends, and I’ve used chatgpt to summarize and explain things I wanted to learn.