• lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    “Google the owner” before intending to spend money with a company?

    Didn’t Google donated to the inauguration fund? Isn’t it ironic?

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      12 hours ago

      Believe it was the CEO personally, but that doesn’t make much of a difference, it was just to abolish Alphabet of any guilt, should the Trump administration ever be toppled.

      Anyway, since DuckDuckGo also uses Bing (yay msft) and Startpage uses Google and Kagi might be the most functional search engine, but it’s also an AI-first company and based in the US… Let’s consider Qwant and Ecosia. They are working on building their own shared index. Ecosia is currently more reliant on Bing than Qwant is, I believe, but they’re both trying to be more independent of the American search overlords.

      So basically, qwant the owner. Or ecosia the owner. Or if you really must, duckduckgo or startpage the owner. I can’t recommend yandexing the owner because then you’re just supporting another dictatorship.

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      1 day ago

      It is almost like we should just boycott all big tech.

      Don’t want Meta/Google/Twatter/Reddit profiling you and giving your information to the feds? Stop using their services and encourage everyone you know to stop as well.

      Until we put our foot down they aren’t going to stop.