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@jaypeach53 yes, I used ddg myself for a few years before switching largely to kagi. like you I don't love the bing connection but it's a decent free search engine, though now annoyingly you have to constantly repeat that you don't want AI "summaries", every few searches.
for non-youtube video, I can't remember just now the good alternatives, blame my middle-aged post-covid brain! but follow @_elena who's great on them (and much more).
@toxi oh this is fascinating and informative. thank you.
@dianshuo Yes. a category error. It just feels like such a fail-state and very now-in-the-UK decision to make. Aligned with making an ex amazon exec the chair of the competition authority. And the 'grown ups' doing it seem to think it's such a smart move, rather than an admission of abject failure and dereliction of their moral duty. It is demoralising that the exact same decisions US tech-worship are made under this government as the last.
@connynasch I mean, it's not my effing "job" to build stuff for Google, let alone a parts library, because they don't bloody pay me!
@jaypeach53 I (have the means to) pay for Kagi and I really love it.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070
If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil.
It is setting out to destroy the world wide web and steal the livelihood of everyone who builds and depends on the web.
I honestly don't know how to mobilise normies to care about and stop this evil. It probably seems too niche and incremental until it's too late.
Oh yeah, and in the UK an ex-Google exec is now running the BBC. . .
@_elena wow, that is just some crazy busy bullshit
