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Google doesn't work anymore ? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's your opinion? Does google really "not work" anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it's own way i feel...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got work to pay for it. It is pretty good, and I like the lenses function (focus on just forums or other ways to sort). I can't say that it's necessarily better in general than startpage.com, which is anonomized google (gets you out of the filter bubble though). I feel like Kagi is very slightly better, maybe 10 percent at most.

I also don't love the hard ID they have on you for payment. They claim not to track you but they certainly can, and I'd argue better than Google can if you use startpage.com or whatever anonomized version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also don’t love the hard ID they have on you for payment

What's the hard ID? You can use a burner email and a pre-paid/anonymous Visa card without any issues.

Here's some prepaid Visa cards you can buy with bitcoin (I have successfully used this site): https://www.coinsbee.com/en/payment-cards-bitcoin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting - I never thought of that, mostly because the overhead is kind of insane (and I don't actually think bitcoin is anonymous, but in this case good enough). I was thinking for your average person, they're going to pull out a credit card or debit card which is a hard ID. Certainly more than if they browse to startpage.com for instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

and I don’t actually think bitcoin is anonymous

You can pay with XMR:

I definitely agree with you though, it is a negative for Kagi. It would be nice if they let you pay direct via crypto or other methods.