Now that Google , FB wants to trap us and control every aspect of the Internet browsing, Is it even possible to break free.

Or creating new Internet is a unrealistic idea ?

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Seems like all we need is a search engine that only returns sites that don’t shove unwanted content down your throat. Tall order though.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve started using Duckduckgo, less specifically for the search and more for the bangs. Fed up of search surfacing sites they care about. I can now quickly search wikipedia with !w etc.

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        1 year ago

        Kagi has been amazing for me so far. I signed up as soon as they changed the pricing to allow unlimited searches at $10/mo.

        I’m still working on my filters and promoting/demoting/pinning sites in my results, but it’s already night-and-day better than Google and even DuckDuckGo (which still deserves much respect).

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          1 year ago

          Looks promising if you’re on a Mac/iOS setup, but I’m on Fedora Linux, so sadly they don’t offer an option for that. If they ever offered Linux support in the future, I’d definitely give Kagi a try.

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      People aren’t putting content much on the open web as they used to as well. Think the high point was when blogs were a thing, the second high point was during the Geocities et all free webspace peroid.