I’m still trying to de-Google my life, little by little. I don’t trust Bing for similar reasons. DDG is feeling shady of late. What’s the search engine you all recommend that I can inject into my daily life? Is there perhaps a search engine that is focused on code, or have we just all moved on to AI for searching?

Edit: I meant to also express my frustration that most browsers do not let you select a “default search engine” that can be used in the address bar aside from 3-5 pre-chosen engines. Seems like 2023 we should be able to customize that to our own liking.

Edit 2: Thanks for the recommendation of Kagi. I’m going to roll with it for a while. I see they have an extension for Safari that allows them to hijack the address bar, which is just what I needed.

  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
    117·
    1 year ago

    If you’re not spending some money then you’re not the customer, you’re the product. Would you really prefer the web continue to be supported by ads and people who sell data about you?

    • blurg@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      If you’re not spending some money then you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

      • BSD (e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, …)
      • GNU/Linux (e.g. kernel, Ubuntu, Mint, Arch, …)
      • GNU/FSF/FOSS software (e.g. LibreOffice, Vim, Emacs, , Compiler Collection, Gnome & KDE desktop, GIMP, VLC, Wine, Python, …)
      • Misc. (e.g. Wikipedia (& Kiwix), Gutenberg (& Calibre), Archive.org, CreativeCommons,org, OpenStreetMap, Lemmy, R, …)
      • Plenty of public schools, public library, charities, …

      Would like to argue with you. However, supporting these projects directly, if you can afford to, is something of a personal responsibility.