And a whole stack of the exact same wrong answers despite you asking the question five times with the “-“ modifier to eliminate those wrong answers.
What’s a “Google”? 😝
I had the f12 developer console thing open recently when I went to do a Google search and was blown away that a basic Google search has over 12 megabytes of network traffic flying around. My ad blockers and such blocked most of it, so it’s clearly not required.
I have seen many posts over the last couple of years about google getting worse and I haven’t notice that. I do have an ad blocker that blocks ads, most ai and I skip past that faq list by habit. So maybe that is why I haven’t notice as I am not looking at those false paid-for results.
I remember being able to find things much easier, especially when looking for older news articles.
It’s not even the ads or ai. I don’t get relevant results for anything remotely complex. It ignores like 2/3 of my search terms. I can even quote something verbatim and it won’t even bring up the origin most times
You can also use DDG, Startpage, spin up a SearX instance, or a number of other options.
God every new computer… the stupid ai bullshit at the top of my results before I remember to change my search engine
I don’t know how any puts up with it
I certainly don’t like putting up with it, and for the most part try to avoid it.
I just use my phone so I don’t have to use a computer.
Let me just sneak a tracking device on you too this will let anyone who pays me know where you are and where you’ve been and what you’ve looked at and your name and height and family members and friends and where you work and we’re working on finding out what you had for dinner last night too
Oh, that’s kind of helpful. I can never remember what I had for dinner last night
And what your eyes are doing. I’ll tell them about your eyeballsssss
I have a pretty decent experience using ublockorigin/brave adblock
Is Brave actually blocking ads noe, and not just inserting their own?
Are they still installing crypto miners on people’s computers?
Never heard about the crypto mining thing. The ads are optional and are blocked by default.
The ads are optional
That’s always how it starts.
Maybe, but I can always switch to another browser if that happens. Some of you guys are so weirdly bitter. No better alternative suggested, just piling up on being little bitches, congrats.
I always just scoot right by that AI at the top, when searching. I wish I could make it go away.
You can: https://udm14.com/
I’ve been using uBlock to get rid of it.
At some point the provided AI blocklist didn’t work, but element picker took care of that fairly easily.
I’m paying for kagi exactly because of all this BS. Results tend to be decent for the most part.
Iv tried kagi twice. It was the most worthless fucking experience of a search engine iv ever seen. I rather use Yahoo.
What’s that? You want a program that’ll run AI slop lovally on your machine if you use our browser?
What’s that? You want our reCAPTCHA program that will force you to verify you’re using a closed-source Android OS to even look at a fucking website?
At this point, you are the problem is you still support Google search.
Would have been perfect if the last panel didn’t have the original web results anymore.
