Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine
hansolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Tech people have zero idea what privacy is or should be, and desperately look for anything to make then feel elites. Paying for Kagi is a flex.
Kagi is fine, but it certainly not magic.
Qwant, Startpage, and SearXNG work well.
Ecosia is DDG (which is Bing results) as a non-profit.
Mojeek…ugh, you stupid but nice guy. You’ll get there one day.
Tech people have zero idea what privacy is or should be, and desperately look for anything to make then feel elites.
What you’re describing are ‘idiots’ and they’re in the tech field as well as saturating every other aspect of life.
Those with privacy systems truly worth flexing, won’t. So that excludes me as I don’t have any darknet only, privacy focused, self-hosted, deep encrypted systems at all.
Sure, but tech bros manage to balance being idiots and influence pretty well. And for the most part, tech people prefer things that are both a money flex and perceived easing friction. Even even they don’t.
Reading HN is a constant surprise at how willingly tech people willingly don’t hold back anything. It’s nuts.
Hmm, I’m not sure I consider tech bros, vibe coders and GUI dependents as tech people. The type of tech people I’m thinking of don’t seek to ease friction, they want to create a frictionless system.
Because that’s what the average tech idiot need - To be able to show off to the average idiot.
If idiots want to follow idiots, that’s a different issue.
Ecosia and Qwant I read are partnering to make a discrete search index.
Although I don’t know the current status of the effort, it may not be Bing for much longer.
they've already launched it, and it turned out to be an AI-first index :/ https://staan.ai/
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I currently use mullvad leta, which uses either the google or brave index. It was only for their VPN users before, but they opened it up to everyone. It’s a nice, simple interface - a “no bullshit”-experience.
hansolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
How do you like it? Just curious.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I like it a lot, because it’s clean and lets me switch between the two indexes with one click, and it’s pretty fast and responsive. It’s been my main search while i was a mullvad client, and i dearly missed it after switching my VPN provider. I’m happy they decided to open it up for the public.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’ve been trying it out, and it’s solid. Startpage seems to get me where I need to go a bit quicker, but this is still a good backup and I’m thrilled to have another frontend for Brave search.