Comment on Let me Google that for you is dead. Long live Kagi that for me.

• serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The alternative is ublock, or a well-tuned noscript.

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  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That plus a well configured pi-hole. I don’t even get ads in my iPhone apps thanks to it.

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  • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s not how the real world works though. Platforms need money to exist. An actual alternative is FOSS hosted by individuals, either because they have free capacity or funded by voluntary donations. Just as the fediverse works, which is why I use uBlock/Alternative clients on YT/Twitch and send money to the creators I watch directly. My goal is to harm those platforms directly, because better alternatives exist.
    I’m not aware of an equivalent for search engines, that is acceptably maintained and mature.

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    • serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      To my knowledge, there isn’t. That’s why for the time being, the best search engine I have found is DuckDuckGo. If you really wanted to go all out, use SearXNG, which is FOSS, and relies on self-hosted platforms, however it requires a bit of tweaking, and some instances seem to be blocked on some harsh work firewalls, at least in my experience.

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