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I'm just trying to search for a website... (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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Been trying to get away from DuckDuckGo because of their support of "AI" stuff, but come on, one of these isn't even in English, and that's what I have my language set to.

Search result from Searx Belgium for "Piefed" that instead shows multiple results for ChatGPT, with one of them appearing to be in Spanish.
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[–] 11 points 7 months ago (6 children)

So you know:

CEO is a anti-vaxxer anti-masker asshole, and incredibly pro-AI and pro-crypto.

Also the browser did at one point "accidentally" have a crypto farm built into it.

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  • [+] -11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

    I'm so tired of the insistence that you have to agree with everything that the CEO does or says if you use a piece of software... You can turn off the ai and crypto in browser settings with a couple clicks. Also I'm talking about the search engine not the browser. I don't use the browser purely because the Linux builds split mode doesn't work nearly as clean as Zen, plus i prefer Firefox forks

    I use it cause it's a search engine that gives good results and that can disable ai answers... Until I'm able to get my server PC finished to selfhost searxng

    Edit they actually slopped up the browser to the point it's beyond disabling it. Literally just garbage

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    I could understand your point if they were literally the only option

    But they're not.

    So why choose the worst option when better exist?

    And you know how money works right? The CEO gets money for your continued usage of their products and services. So by using it, you directly support all their shitty views.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Really not how that works... Do you use a phone? Guess you agree with child labor then cause they make money from your purchase

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Did you read this part at all?

    I'm pretty sure the answer is no.

    I could understand your point if they were literally the only option But they're not. So why choose the worst option when better exist?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Oh I read it, and don't care. Because all y'all have done is go on about how bad of a person I am for using a search engine, but no mention of any of these "great alternatives" I would love to hear some of these great alternatives that you speak of. If they can provide a better searching experience then I'd be happy to give them a shot.

    Brave search does what I need it to so if another does it better I'd switch. But oh no my searches contribute pennies to someone bad that uses said pennies to make their browser worse to use. I have bigger things to worry about than a CEO whose ideals don't effect the thing I'm using (just now seeing the separate comment thread about selling search data)

    Edit: I've been interacting from replies tab so I haven't seen any of the other context added to the overall discussion. Do you have any suggestions for a replacement that gives good quality web and image results? That's one thing that I can never find when I was degoogling was many search engines that could compete on image search.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I don't care what a CEO (for free software) thinks or says I care what the software does. Is the software good?... The browser no. It's complete garbage the search engine. Yeah it's pretty decent. If the CEO's garbage ideals bleed into the software like it does in the browser, yeah it's trash. The search engine like almost every other mainstream search engine has AI answers except unlike a lot of others it lets you turn that off. It doesn't skew results towards his ideals, doesn't bury results under sponsored links, Has no crypto nonsense, it's just a search engine. It's not that deep

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