• explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    Daily reminder that

    • Brave’s CEO donates to homophobic organizations and
    • Brave is connected to the BAT pay-to-surf scam

    Don’t use Brave.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Kagi promises not to collect, but since it’s paid all searches are tied to a account and a payment method.

    • theblips@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Not if you use Privacy Pass, then they only have the proof that you generated x amount of tokens (which are batch generated btw so you can’t correlate generation to search)

  • Sips'@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Kagi has been by far the best search experience for me. It does cost some money but damn is it nice! Even has a feature to specifcially search only in fediverse. Also a plus supporting them considering they’re bringing their Orion browser to Linux.

  • geissi@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Ok maybe I’m too pedantic, but I’ve see this before and it really bothers me how inconsistent information is presented here.
    Granted, the country flags are somewhat self-explanatory and we get a legend for E, S, and O.

    But what do the grey symbols under Searxng and Metager mean? That They are metasearch engines? That info is already communicated by being in the corresponding box.

    What is the dark circles under Quant, Ecosia, and Startpage? I don’t see any section that specifically refers to those three.

    The tie of the differently colored names to the “to note” section is also not immediately clear.

    Am I missing something?

    • Arkhive (they/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I agree about the readability. I think the circle under Searxng and Metager is to specify they are aggregators that base their results on those that existing engines would produce. It’s very hard to see, but the other circle you mentioned is a REALLY little EU flag. I think that means hosted/owned by an EU company.

  • BeamBeamCable@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    Leta has been nice so far aside from the blue flashbang I’m never prepared for. I pray for darkmode.

    Swapped from DDGo after frustrations with the LLM in my searches. The article-bloat is gone too. Very nice.

    • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      Lmao yeah I hope they make dark mode available soon or at least make the blue a little darker.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
    82·
    4 days ago

    Just checked out Swisscows and was greeted by a popup saying, “Swisscows is introducing a subscription model.”.

    So, that’s a non-starter for me.

  • Yareckt@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Metager has become a paid service since Yahoo doesn’t allow them access to their results for free.

  • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    Missing stract.com, it’s like old school google before the ads. A little slow to update to latest web crawl, but much better content returned

  • [R3D4CT3D]@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    isn’t ecosia tied to some shady ad/marketing network or something? i remember seeing a bunch of comments fighting abt it.