Been trying to get away from DuckDuckGo because of their support of “AI” stuff, but come on, one of these isn’t even in English, and that’s what I have my language set to.

  • starblursd@lemmy.zipEnglish
    110·
    1 day ago

    I’m so tired of the insistence that you have to agree with everything that the CEO does or says if you use a piece of software… You can turn off the ai and crypto in browser settings with a couple clicks. Also I’m talking about the search engine not the browser. I don’t use the browser purely because the Linux builds split mode doesn’t work nearly as clean as Zen, plus i prefer Firefox forks

    I use it cause it’s a search engine that gives good results and that can disable ai answers… Until I’m able to get my server PC finished to selfhost searxng

    Edit they actually slopped up the browser to the point it’s beyond disabling it. Literally just garbage

    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      41·
      20 hours ago

      I could understand your point if they were literally the only option

      But they’re not.

      So why choose the worst option when better exist?

      And you know how money works right? The CEO gets money for your continued usage of their products and services. So by using it, you directly support all their shitty views.

      • starblursd@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        10 hours ago

        Really not how that works… Do you use a phone? Guess you agree with child labor then cause they make money from your purchase

        • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Did you read this part at all?

          I’m pretty sure the answer is no.

          I could understand your point if they were literally the only option But they’re not. So why choose the worst option when better exist?

    • starblursd@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      I don’t care what a CEO (for free software) thinks or says I care what the software does. Is the software good?.. The browser no. It’s complete garbage the search engine. Yeah it’s pretty decent. If the CEO’s garbage ideals bleed into the software like it does in the browser, yeah it’s trash. The search engine like almost every other mainstream search engine has AI answers except unlike a lot of others it lets you turn that off. It doesn’t skew results towards his ideals, doesn’t bury results under sponsored links, Has no crypto nonsense, it’s just a search engine. It’s not that deep