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.

Show threaddisorderlyf
@firebreathingduck @blogdiva Kagi also started going hard into "AI" awhile back
May 20 at 5:32pmWeb
Show threadfirebreathingduckMay 22

@disorderlyf @blogdiva

Yes, and I hate it. But they offer the ability to disable all AI features, which I used.

Likewise, https://noai.duckduckgo.com only exists because the default DuckDuckGo experience incorporates AI 🤬

My hope, however naive, is that so many users will use noai.duckduckgo.com and Kagi with AI off that they do the right thing for business reasons, if not ethical ones.

DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

DuckDuckGo
Show threaddisorderlyfMay 22
@firebreathingduck @blogdiva I haven't given up completely on duckduckgo yet precisely because you can turn it off as easily as prefixing the URL with five additional characters. I don't recall it being that easy for Kagi
Show threadfirebreathingduckMay 22

@disorderlyf @blogdiva

I think https://kagi.com/settings/ai is enough. The "Quick Answer" button is still displayed, and I'm annoyed that I can't remove it. But LLM summaries are not generated unless you click the botton.

Sign In - Kagi Search

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

Show threaddisorderlyfMay 22
@firebreathingduck @blogdiva That would do it for a lot of people, I suspect. It's less viable for me as someone who nukes anything resembling a cookie from orbit whenever I close my browser, but that's more a me thing. Either way, my use of both services are not something I would throw all my eggs into anyway because it's hard for me to trust anyone who has those features on by default to not do what Google is doing now in the future.