Comment on just realized whoogle is dead now
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoTo be honest, this is one of those times where I would say that it’s not that bad. Can’t expect a company to outright violate the laws of the country they’re registered in, you need to be friends with Trump to do that. If they keep their shit away from all the corpo vultures and only comply with direct subpoenas, it’s probably the best we can hope for.
reka@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
yes but that’s kind of the point. I don’t want to deal with a company which is beholden to the law of gangsters. I might not hold it against them but also it is a huge competitive disadvantage for a privacy based product.
tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
So, if I can choose between a company that fucks me over with their search ranking, sells my data and still tries to present me bought ads as actual results, and is required to provide all this information to a corrupt goverment; versus a company that minimizes the amount of collected data, so they don’t have to hand over so many information while being supoenad, I choose the 2nd option
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I fear that this all-or-nothing attitude brings more harm than good. If leads to the thinking that if nothing is perfect nothing should be done anyway. More than once people were saying to me that they’ve read that they can get your data anyway so there is no difference between a firefox with adblock on linux and google chrome on windows 11 with all the trackers active.
And this is exactly the attitude that those who are selling our data want us to have.
reka@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s not all or nothing it’s just America isn’t a trustworthy place to hold anything you don’t want accessed by a corrupt government. I wouldn’t use a Russian service, I wouldn’t use an American service.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well, in this case we’re talking about websearch, and there is no non-american websearch, so you don’t have many options.