mariafarrell1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070

If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil.

It is setting out to destroy the world wide web and steal the livelihood of everyone who builds and depends on the web.

I honestly don't know how to mobilise normies to care about and stop this evil. It probably seems too niche and incremental until it's too late.

Oh yeah, and in the UK an ex-Google exec is now running the BBC. . .

Show threadStage name Jay Peach1d ago
@mariafarrell FUCK GOOGLE! Use another search engine!
Show threadmariafarrell1d ago
@jaypeach53 I (have the means to) pay for Kagi and I really love it.
Show threadStage name Jay Peach1d ago
@mariafarrell idk, I use DuckDuckGo despite them using Bing data. Have been using DDG for about 5 years now. Started weaning myself off Google when they dropped the “Don’t Be Evil” motto. What’s a good video platform in the fediverse? YouTube is next.
Show threadmariafarrell1d ago

@jaypeach53 yes, I used ddg myself for a few years before switching largely to kagi. like you I don't love the bing connection but it's a decent free search engine, though now annoyingly you have to constantly repeat that you don't want AI "summaries", every few searches.

for non-youtube video, I can't remember just now the good alternatives, blame my middle-aged post-covid brain! but follow @_elena who's great on them (and much more).

Show threadElena Rossini ⁂
@mariafarrell @jaypeach53 PeerTube maybe? Their search engine is here: https://sepiasearch.org
Sepia Search

A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by Framasoft

Sepia Search
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@_elena @mariafarrell @jaypeach53

Feel like with no-AI DDG and Kagi you can live without Google search, but YouTube is a huge problem. There is just no other scale video alternative that isn't worse (TicTok, IG), so whenever they decide to move aggressively they can really lock down video comms. It is a major risk.

Already, you are asked to 'login' if you use annonymous browsers and VPNs. YouTube is a really big problem.