I mean they force us to use it by putting it on top of the actual search results and they don’t realize we just dont fucking want it – im sorry they spent trillions already on it but we’re not paying them for it – that’s on them to eat the money they set in fire.
The day a corporation can enforce a scholastic learning agenda, or curriculum, is the day we should burn that corporation to the ground. Families, kids, teachers and money for supplies, no propaganda in the schoolhouse, except to teach the kids to recognize it and avoid it.
no propaganda in the schoolhouse
Good luck with that one. Even if you could get schools to stop requiring the Pledge of Allegiance every day, every history textbook and literary novel has a perspective in it and was published by a megacorp.
I don’t know a single school where the pledge is required?
Edit: and every literary novel? Sure, EVERYTHING has a perspective. Novels are written by people, of course it has perspective. Trying to argue that makes it propaganda is a little much
Even the schools I’ve seen that still say the Pledge don’t require it. I’m not in the US anymore, but the last school my kids were in before we left didn’t even do the former.
The policy change is “If schools don’t allow google slop, they can’t use google search.”
Hopefully it just means that schools use duckduckgo and avoid google search, too. Blocking google (the world’s largest advertising corporation) should be the default policy of all schools, especially public schools.
What a paper tiger of a threat. Like its hard to switch to duck duck go?
Is it possible for a photo to be taken of him that doesn’t look cool as fuck?
Lol, my thought exactly was “damn, that’s a badass photo, for a badass motherfucker”
yes, sometimes he just looks silly and nonthreatening. still not a bad look.
are those lenses slightly red? is he going to fight big-guy Robert moses, the Russian mob, and drug smuggling ninjas?
I’m not making fun of him. I just want to know if I should be watching.
Kids in New York are gonna grow up using DuckDuckGo!
And possibly be better off for it
Why did they have to use this sick ass photo of him for the story?
Google search sucks ass anyway. Better to wean children off of Google sooner rather than later.
My phone reset the default search to Google and it was ridiculous. First page was all AI garbage sites and aggregators. I switched back to Bing, slightly less bad, and found my results on the first page. Gotta get DDG on the default list.
Should have started sooner, a lot of people seem to still think it is the only choice.
He looks so badass in that thumbnail
I thought based on the thumbnail that this was about Daredevil.
I think he looks like an extra from the matrix who looked too nice to make the final cut. But I know he is badass, and that’s the point :)
He’s the one in this 2026 version of the matrix
Because he is
Anyone have recommendations for search nowadays? Ddg is pretty meh lately.
Ecosia feels like a greenwashed Bing, but I have stuck with it as my default for a few years now and it feels “good enough”
I have an instance of SearX for an alternative that I haven’t quite gotten the hang of, though
It feels really temperamental and apparently it just pulls from DDG anyway? Glad to be part of Lemmy so I can get some new suggestions for alternatives to Google
I’ve been using startpage lately, but I find it meh… although to be honest I don’t know if that is so much their fault as it is how SEO has ruined the web
what I can say is that whenever I search a topic, the first half dozen results I click on are just AI generated bullshit all with the exact same web page layout. and that’s just the ones I click on, not the ones that I scroll past that I can tell are the exact same shit
I don’t know exactly why all the search results nowadays are websites that were clearly AI generated under the same template and have a whole novella about how it’s important to use the correct torque for your oil drain plug, but like dude I just want to know what the torque spec is for my car because it’s not in the manual
Self host 4get
It works great!
You can use MetaGer, Ecosia, Startpage, Mojeek, Qwant, specific page searches… or all of these. if you want a deeper research. After more than a quarter of century I’ve anyway half the internet in my bookmarks and only use the websearch in few occasions, or for security checks of unknown URLs.
not to discourage you, but half of those are powered by google indexing.
ICE will come for him
Thought you were making a statement about ICE going after him because they’re a bunch of trigger happy mouthbreathers, but it looks like you just spam that everywhere.
I do have that user tagged as “zionist scumbag” for context.
ICE will CUM for him
Immigrant Cum Enforcement
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google isn’t a monopoly, it is just very popular in zombietopia
….you know another search engine, or ad network? Like, idk, Google is pretty monopolistic
Or browser for that matter.
You are clearly just trolling, and running multiple accounts to upvote yourself with.
Okie doki
no. the core of like every browser is google now.
You believe google is the only search engine… seriously?
no one is claiming that.
“monopolies” aren’t only about the number of products in a market. they’re also about ~market share~ of a single company and ~anti-competitive business practices~.
That isn’t what a monopoly is, ‘mono’ is a hint.
They are far and away the leader. Of course I know there are other engines, you fool, and other browsers and other ad companies, but to claim they aren’t a monopoly? I guess you believe Amazon isn’t either because like other places have delivery! Come on….
Don’t feed the troll
At least lemmy is big enough for trolls. :3
It isn’t even a complicated word.
Apparently you don’t appreciate the nuances around it, so here you go: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/monopoly
Okie. :)
you couldn’t name one. doesn’t natter if they exist.
