That’s why I like Kagi. I do almost anything to avoid ads
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GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I haven’t used Google for awhile now. It just became an ad-ridden hellhole.
Steve@communick.news 10 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
For people who are interested in using a search engine that
- does not fund a bigot,
- does not collect all your search results under a single account, and
- does not charge you money,
I’d recommend checking out a community-supported SearX instance instead!
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
[deleted]Steve@communick.news 10 months ago
Not really no.
Kagi has vastly more features. Most are extremely useful. Including privacy.
And the whole “funding a bigot” complaint strikes me as kind of silly. The “partnership” is just them using the Brave search API, no different than they do Google, Bing, and a few others. I even have Brave as one of my sanity check browsers when something doesn’t work on Firefox.LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
So you don’t dispute Brendan Eich is a bigot, you just think it’s silly to point out that fact to potential buyers of their platform?
Can you explain to me how a service that ties all of your searches, and payment info, to a single account is more private than one that does not?
muix@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Privacy doesn’t exist without the ability to compile and self host.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do people not have ad blockers anymore?
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s not what we’re talking about. Ad blockers don’t do anything to fix the Google’s search algorithm
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I understand the post OP but I’m replying to a comment. Specifically this part…
Baku@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I take it what OP meant is that a lot of the top results are ads - even if they aren’t shown as such. Like how half the crap uploaded by large youtubers these days is pretty much an ad for a specific product, although there’s no way to tell until you click onto it (unless you use sponsorblock)
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 9 months ago
The ads you see injected in your search result as “sponsored” are not the only way Googles Ad interests affect your search results. They are actively manipulating your search queries to make them point more towards their paying customers wanted result without you noticing.