Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
Yeah, odd inclusion. Duckduckgo is indeed a search enginge, but it’s essentially just a front end for Bing.
Sadly yes :( i’ve been keeping an eye on mojeek, hopefully it’ll get better.
Ecosia is building a custom search engine index, ETA summer 2025
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
Probably not, they sell yojr traffic data to plant trees, they’re not privacy oriented its just that their greed serves a common good.
I’m so looking forward to that!
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Sadly yes :( i’ve been keeping an eye on mojeek, hopefully it’ll get better.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ecosia is building a custom search engine index, ETA summer 2025
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days 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
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Probably not, they sell yojr traffic data to plant trees, they’re not privacy oriented its just that their greed serves a common good.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I’m so looking forward to that!