cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44525355
This is only the beginning
Google steals people’s content through AI summaries, trains off their work and now is looking to rewrite their articles
The good news is that there are legitimate alternatives
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- Kagi -> For a paid ad-free premium experience
- Ecosia -> Similar experience to Google while supporting a good cause
- Qwant -> Building its own results based in the EU
- DuckDuckGo -> Privacy-focused search
Detailed guide: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/search-engine/
brave search is ok too
DuckDuckGo is so frigging bad.
Can you explain, please? Why is it bad?
Yeah which is why I put it last. The list is somewhat ranked top to bottom by usability.
I still sometimes need to use Google’s search engine, but the new default “AI Mode” is bullshit, so I use Violentmonkey and this userscript to force it to use the original default, “Web”: https://github.com/ZenithO-o/Fix-Google-Web-Search
Shit like this is completely unusable for laymen.
