your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 20

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116607132555242907

if you use an android phone:

1. get SIMPLE SEARCH
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.tobiasbielefeld.searchbar

2.set up your search engines:

noai.duckduckgo.com
startpage.com

3. if you are like me and search a lot for EDUCATIONAL info on crafting tools and fabrics but get a lot of SHOPPING links, create a specialized search excluding the big offenders:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s -site:amazon.com -site:walmart.com -site:pinterest.com -site:ebay.com -site:alibaba.com -site:shein.com

enjoy your degoogled, deamazoned searches ☺

Show threadfirebreathingduckMay 20

@blogdiva

Ooh, that's brilliant! I'm already using noai.duckduckgo.com but I hadn't thought to set up the search to exclude shopping sites. Thank you!

I also use kagi.com paid search, but:
1. Not everyone can afford it. (And before anyone says, "If you're not the paying customer, you're the product", remember that under modern capitalism, if you're a paying customer you're *still* also the product.)
2. Because it's proprietary, we can't prove Kagi keeps our data private. Just because they don't serve ads does not mean they keep my searches on heart disease secret.

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@firebreathingduck @blogdiva 3. Enshittification corrupts everything, especially when actual money changes hands. Not saying ditch Kagi but stay vigilant. The terms of service changes that are the quietest are the ones people miss.
May 20 at 4:04pmWeb