DDG allows you to disable ads and AI in the settings!
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Emi@ani.social 14 hours 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 13 hours ago
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
laughs in Kagi
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 7 hours 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 5 hours 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 3 hours ago
Google has been an advertising company for over two decades. Everything else that they do is to feed AdSense.
gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
SearXNG is really easy to self-host
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours 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 14 hours ago
You can just search on Wikipedia…
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Duh! 🙄
Doesn’t change the fact that you used to find the (arguably) best result on top, and nowadays you don’t.