Dark_NebulaFront-ends vs. Browsers + Ad-blockers Does it make a difference?
John Abbe (aka Slow)I realized a few months ago that in large part, the AI wars are over and Google has won. There's room for a competitor, but they want at least one competitor around, the same way Microsoft wanted Apple in the 1990s.
Axios, catching up to where the rest of us were >= 10 years ago (2016, when Axios was founded). I mean, what year did you become fully aware that Google had left "Don't be evil." behind? https://www.axios.com/2026/05/23/google-search-internet-social-media #Google #degoogle #tech #AI #LLM #resistance #labor #generalstrike
Kagi HQGood time to resurface this piece:
"It’s a fantastic feeling to type in a search query and once again get useful, relevant, non-AI results (that I can customize!). It’s a bit of sanity returning to my Internet experience, and I’m grateful."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/
Tristan Colgate-McFarlane
@Ah, I didn't notice this before but there's a migration section at the bottom of the Mailbox settings section that mentions a service called Audriga.
In addition to de-Googling, I also just got the notice that the feature for Atlassian opt-out for AI training is now active, so if you've been using Jira and want to opt-out of that, check it out. I've also done a de-Jira and still need to find an alternative.
So I moved a bunch of old mail from Google Workspace to Mailbox and deleting a ton of junk and finally filing and organizing a bunch of others and it feels good to purge so much crap. Luckily a lot of the crap comes from specific email addresses so it's easy to filter and delete and the Mailbox browser app search is pretty good.
I do have a much older personal Gmail (free account) that I think I want to move too at some point but I'm not sure how to approach that one.
jcrabappleI found it. It's called Uruky.
Search privately and without ads — Uruky
Lifehacker rounded up some of Kagi's best features 👇
"Use redirects, filters, and anti-clickbait features to make the most of Kagi."
https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-best-hidden-features-in-kagi-the-paid-alternative-to-google-search
AJ SadauskasWith Google choosing ensloppification, here's a recommendation for an independent search engine to try.
Mojeek (on the Fedi at @Mojeek ) is an independent search engine based out if the UK. Unlike the various front ends to Bing, it runs its own web crawler.
The most impressive feature is you enter the thing you want to search for, and it returns a list of website links.
https://www.mojeek.com/
#deGoogled #degoogle #enshittification #google #mojeek
Mojeek (on the Fedi at @Mojeek ) is an independent search engine based out if the UK. Unlike the various front ends to Bing, it runs its own web crawler.
The most impressive feature is you enter the thing you want to search for, and it returns a list of website links.
https://www.mojeek.com/
#deGoogled #degoogle #enshittification #google #mojeek