amgine comments on Don't be evil

Pay for the product or be the product. I like having customizable search that works and isn't filled with ads and features I don't want. Or in the case of ddg, I like being able to search news and not ending up on MSN fucking constantly (because Bing)...

With that said, there's also mojeek and searx, worth trying.

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[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 8 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

Half of the time you pay for the product and you're stillthe product

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[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago

Yeah those half suck. Anyway, I told myself I wouldn't shill but Kagi's privacy policy spells it out pretty clearly where they stand.

Could they one day turn around and start storing or selling user data? Yes. But they would face such a user backlash that it would end them. Their entire revenue is from subscriptions so without happy paying customers they're cooked.

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[–] Neocorporation@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Naturally not everyone can afford $5 a month for a superior product. Have you tried yahoo search?

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[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

That's a lot of sass to throw in this economy. You don't know anyone's financial situation. Good for you that you can spare the $5 a month, but don't be a jerk about it.

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[–] Neocorporation@lemmy.world 0 points 23 minutes ago

Maybe if they drank less cappuccinos they could afford it.

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[–] robert@piefed.ca 19 points 16 hours ago*

Yeah DDG is really bad at filtering AI slop from the search results. You can turn the AI summaries off but 90% of the hits will often just be blogs written by ChatGPT

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