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• zebidiah@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Waterfox defaults to startpage out of the box, but I think duckduckgo is the most “mainstream” alternative

  Switching out your default search engine away from google is such an easy step to take that has a massive impact on how much google can spy on you. It should go without saying that chrome is obvious spyware

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Startpage and kagi have been closest to the golden age of search for me (2004-12 ish)

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• probablymissing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  you can use a proxy like 4get!

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• MadBigote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kagi is a nice substitute of google, not free, though. As fle me, their basic 300 searches a month ia enough, even though i search a lot for DD links and homework.

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• x0x7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Brave search does also have AI, but it doesn’t seem annoying, and you have to expand it yourself to see it. It isn’t shoved down your throat.

  Having an AI overview is handy to have around when you actually want it. On Brave it’s just available.

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