SoupBrick@pawb.social 1 month ago
Start reading. Write your own emails. Use AI free search(noai.duckduckgo.com) to find the answers to your questions and read the articles. If you start small you can grow your mind. Investing in yourself takes effort, if you put in the effort, it becomes easier over time.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
WHat about using Google with uBlock anti-AI filters?
SoupBrick@pawb.social 1 month ago
The idea is to build skills navigating the internet to find information instead of taking whatever the AI suggestion throws at you. So, whatever accomplishes that.
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 1 month ago
i suggest not using google because its a privacy nightmare.
Alternatives are DuckDuckGo which is not entirely trustworthy because it uses Bing under the hood, same with ecosia.
Startpake got recently kicked out of the default search engines for waterfox for a reason maybe privacy related? That one has google under the hood.
Now the ones i can reccomend:
searxng (if you have the ressources, its selfhost)
Qwant (no AI stuff, funded by the french for the french, free to use by all but the default in french shools and recently the european parliament in an effort to ditch google)
I know that there are more options but i forgor...
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Qwant actually has AI overview features, but they made it optional, giving you the option to deactivate the AI features.
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 1 month ago
maybe some of my addons block it because i havent noticed it but nice that you pointed that out
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Is Ecosia good?
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 1 month ago
its basically bing with less ads and planting trees with part of the profit. You can test it out a bit and then test another or keep it. Search hopping is easy
ContactClosure@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Duck duck go with Ai assist turned off.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I use Qwant with the AI overviews turned off.