• jetA
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    7 months ago

    They all kinda suck.

    I use DDG since it works without complaining on vpns, but if that doesn’t work I fall back to google, and eventually kagi

    Search is really terrible now

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      7 months ago

      It will get much worse as soon as the internet had another 3-4 cycles where it has been digested to train LLMs and puked out again by LLMs to shitty websites. Then you have the option to search for that shit traditionally or to use another shitty LLM on top of that

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        7 months ago

        You have to login, so it isn’t very privacy respecting.

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          7 months ago

          I pay with a crypto account and a dedicated email account. In this world you make your own privacy, everyone is out to get your info. Yes, they track my search trends and likely don’t do anything too nefarious with it now, but it’s only a matter of time before they do, but my trends in that account is all they will get and since there are no ads and I can play a part in content filtering and prioritization on Kagi, I am far less a victim than many other platforms.

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            7 months ago

            Just because it’s a dedicated email account doesn’t mean it’s not traceable to you.