Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, odd inclusion. Duckduckgo is indeed a search enginge, but it’s essentially just a front end for Bing.

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  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sadly yes :( i’ve been keeping an eye on mojeek, hopefully it’ll get better.

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    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ecosia is building a custom search engine index, ETA summer 2025

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      • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Very interesting, thanks for telling me - i recall them sharing your IP with bing/google? but since they’re building their own, this may change. I’ll keep an eye on this, thank you

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      • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m so looking forward to that!

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  DDG and Brave were pushed as “censorship free” alternatives, back when I was looking into covid disinformation, because the very obviously fake websites would sometimes rank higher on them

  There may be more to it though

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve heard all kinds of bad rumours about Brave but idk if any of it is true.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They’re balls deep in crypto but even the crypto bros don’t buy their bullshit

      reddit.com/…/brave_browser_scam_a_fake_privacy_br…

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• legolas@fedit.pl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I mean yeah, doesnt matter. The point is people shared alternatives to big tech just like folks who are not in the power right now

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  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mistook it as you saying DDG is alt-tech. My mistake

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