DDG allows you to disable ads and AI in the settings!
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Emi@ani.social 2 months ago
I remember before ai I would just find what I needed with the.first link. Now I need to scroll past 3 ad links. Even duckduckgo has sponsored links.
libewa@feddit.org 2 months ago
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
laughs in Kagi
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 month ago
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 months ago
They’ve gotta pay the bills somehow. If you’re not paying for it, someone else is, and that mean either selling ad spots, or selling your info.
defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Not really the case with Google though, at least not anymore. They have more money than ever. They could very well go with less ads, but they instead shove more and more down people’s throats.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 months ago
Google has been an advertising company for over two decades. Everything else that they do is to feed AdSense.
gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
SearXNG is really easy to self-host
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even without the ads, I can’t get past the SRO or AI slop. I don’t even understand how to search things anymore.
I was looking for tips on picking blackberries and the top 5 results were 10 page long essays of mindless garbage with one sentence in the middle somewhere that said “wear gloves”. No fucking shit eh.
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yes. I miss the days when the Wikipedia article was the first result. Now, even with ddg, to get to the Wikipedia article I have to add wikipedia to the query… This is so sad…
Territorial@piefed.ca 2 months ago
You can just search on Wikipedia…
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Duh! 🙄
Doesn’t change the fact that you used to find the (arguably) best result on top, and nowadays you don’t.
unknownman@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You can disable the AI settings in options. Or manually set “noai.duckduckgo.com”