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amio@kbin.social 9 months ago
Usually it's shit advice anyway, so it's not like you're actually missing out. Of course they want you to think so, wanting your money, but back in the day when this was "expertsexchange" (snrk) evading the paywall was... easy, but still not worth it. That is how shit it was.
Just find better sources: Google has recently been even more blatant about pushing "good for us"-results above "actually good" results, so trying another engine might help, too.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I stopped saying “google it” and started saying “search the internet” when I switch to Qwant.
lunicoDee@feddit.it 9 months ago
Qwant is just a bing fronte with a bit better privacy, bit they still share some infos:
Microsoft provides some of the search results you see on our pages, and provides ads to the keywords in your search inquiry. This means that we need to send Microsoft some information related to your search that allows our partner to return results and ads relevant to that search, and to prevent fraudulent clicks or other activities that are not permitted by our Terms of Use.
In order to detect fraud, Qwant uses a specialized service offered by Microsoft, which does not have access to the keywords of your search. Only your IP address and the browser (your “User Agent”) are communicated to this specialized service to calculate a fraud probability score. Keywords are sent separately to another service that does not know your IP address.
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uranibaba@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s true but I preferred their results over ddg when I compared. I might try swisscows again.