• Thomas Gray@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Since Google has basically just turned into an advertising engine I’ve used their services less and less. I’m also not fond of the way they censor things, even when I agree with the ideology, I don’t think a mega corporation should be deciding what people are allowed to speak. Gives me a creepy dystopian vibe.

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      I’m also not fond of the way they censor things, even when I agree with the ideology

      Agree. Corporations use the majority’s opinions for their benefit. Which is not good nor bad. Until it’s bad.

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      1 year ago

      I know of invidious for YouTube, what do you use for google search? I would love to use another search engine but google seems to still have the most reliable results

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        The most reliable for them, I’m trying to move away from Google as fast as I can:

        • Vivaldi browser,
        • DuckDuckGo / Bing
        • Next will be LineageOS…
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          Vivaldi is a chrome derived browser. Using it entrenches Google power over the web.

          The manifest v3 debacle, weird “standards” like the recent Web Environment Integrity and more are only posible because Google controls most of the web clients through Blink and V8. They can make or break standards thanks to the massive amount of Chrome and Chromium related browsers, like Vivaldi, Brave, Opera, Edge, etc.

          So, glad you like Vivaldi, but you are not that far from google and are in fact an asset for their goals.

          We need Firefox alive and well. If we lose it, Google will be THE web and will control it’s foreseeable future.

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    Because I’m never logged into Google and use a VPN their search-engine just puts me into infinite captcha loop anyway now. Can’t even use Google if I want to. They’ve basically banned anonymous use.

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    Is there anything that’s good as Google was a few years ago? And what about Google Images (including image search)? It seems that’s gotten way less reliable over the last few years. ~Strawberry

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    The starting point of the internet has changed over the years. And will keep changing. From the famous startpagina.nl in the Netherlands. To hyves. To Facebook. To Google. To ChatGPT. And now maybe the fediverse for some people?