Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

• Steve@communick.news ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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?

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s silly to try to avoid doing anything that may, in some way support a bigot. They are literally everywhere. Even Gandhi was racist.

      It’s just the payment info, not the searches. And since their users are their only revenue source, because they aren’t selling ads, they have no reason to save searches.

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      • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Except Brave as a company has benefited from the sort of people who liked his ideals in particular from day one, partnered themselves with a pay-to-play Wikipedia clone made by a white supremacist, and has engaged in unethical business practices that reflect an overall corporate lack of care of other people’s consent as well.

        You might think that under capitalism or something, animal cruelty might be a huge problem too, but I doubt you would buy bullets with the express intent of shooting dogs. (I hope.)

        You also didn’t touch the gaping privacy issue.

        “They have no reason to save my data” is a poor excuse, as corporations always have a reason to exploit you. The fact you have given them money is also meaningless, as corporations like Apple have taken The money of consumers and turned around and harmed their privacy anyway.

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  • muix@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Privacy doesn’t exist without the ability to compile and self host.

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• mihnt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    tl;dr searx.space

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    • mihnt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Instead of quoting the text where there was a link, try clicking the link

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