cloudskaterI'm just trying to search for a website...
Ep1cFac3pa1mI know. I’m trying not to use DuckDuckGo because of their AI support. I was told this was a good search engine to use instead, but it often spits random stuff back at me.
I use brave search, in the settings you can turn off ai answer and anonymous telemetry
gwl [he/him]So you know:
CEO is a anti-vaxxer anti-masker asshole, and incredibly pro-AI and pro-crypto.
Also the browser did at one point “accidentally” have a crypto farm built into it.
I’m so tired of the insistence that you have to agree with everything that the CEO does or says if you use a piece of software… You can turn off the air and crypto in browser settings with a couple clicks. Also I’m talking about the search engine not the browser. I don’t use the browser purely because the Linux builds split mode doesn’t work nearly as clean as Zen, plus i prefer Firefox forks
I use it cause it’s a search engine that gives good results and that can disable ai answers… Until I’m able to get my server PC finished to selfhost searxng
I don’t care what a CEO thinks or says I care what the software does. Is the software good?.. The browser no. It’s complete garbage the search engine. Yeah it’s pretty decent. If the CEO’s garbage ideals bleed into the software like it does in the browser, yeah it’s trash. The search engine like almost every other mainstream search engine has AI answers except unlike a lot of others it lets you turn that off. Has no crypto nonsense, it’s just a search engine. It’s not that deep
I could understand your point if they were literally the only option
But they’re not.
So why choose the worst option when better exist?
Really not how that works… Do you use a phone? Guess you agree with child labor then cause they make money from your purchase
Did you read this part at all?
I’m pretty sure the answer is no.
I could understand your point if they were literally the only option But they’re not. So why choose the worst option when better exist?
Oh I read it, and don’t care. Because all y’all have done is go on about how bad of a person I am for using a search engine, but no mention of any of these “great alternatives” I would love to hear some of these great alternatives that you speak of. If they can provide a better searching experience then I’d be happy to give them a shot.
Brave search does what I need it to so if another does it better I’d switch. But oh no my searches contribute pennies to someone bad that uses said pennies to make their browser worse to use. I have bigger things to worry about than a CEO whose ideals don’t effect the thing I’m using