Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites

• asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve heard of it but I don’t like the idea of having search queries associate with my credit card, even though they say they don’t do that.

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  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But if you don’t pay directly for a good search engine, aren’t they forced to use ads to fund it? And then you end up with Google. Or is there a third option?

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    • iarigby@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      they can give an option to use anonymous forms of payment. Credit card only is aggressively anti privacy

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    • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Didn’t think this through, did I… But DDG works for now

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    • Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I paid for discord nitro, didn’t stop them from adding ads.

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  • Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Use a searxng instance instead.

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah but aren’t they getting enshitified? There was a comment a long ago saying Kagi was looking for more ways to monetize or something

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  • Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everything trends that way. Maybe if it was held by a municipality things could be stable for longer

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