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mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You don’t hate the modern web. You hate people.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No I definitely hate many disparate elements of the modern web. Browsers are controlled by an advertising giant that can’t even operate a decent search engine anymore. Legislators are still trying to demonize pornography, of any kind, as if two adults fucking in private is child exploitation… somehow. Every website that centralized disparate forums / galleries / chatrooms simultaneously went pants-on-head crazy in a panicked frenzy to make N+1 dollars.

    I also hate people who demand “be polite!” without viciously cracking down on actual trolls saying stupid shit to bait blunt correction. And those trolls, obviously. It doesn’t have to be exclusive. There’s plenty to go around.

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    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I felt the same way but with the Reddit thing I started switching up some of my sites.

      Have you used any of the SearX instances? Works just as well as google for the most part

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have now, and I’m underwhelmed. As a test case I used a repeated failure point for Google and DDG: ‘“Apple I” keyboard’. As in, keyboards for the Apple I, which came before the Apple II. (I have some very stupid hobbies.) Major search engines overwhelmingly return Apple iWhatever keyboards, or just Apple keyboards in general, with occasional vintage or retro hardware tossed in. The handful of SearX instances I tried returned nothing.

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