^Qn.
How to reduce the enshittification on various services.
( eg: Payment sites instead of Apps, Ads in Facebook site - I rarely use FB )
Any browser addons, scripts are welcome.
^Qn.
How to reduce the enshittification on various services.
( eg: Payment sites instead of Apps, Ads in Facebook site - I rarely use FB )
Any browser addons, scripts are welcome.
On Android, using an app like DuckDuckGo or TrackerControl is huge for protecting your data in other apps
Duckduckgo just fetch api from google and bing. So, basically you search on Gooogle or Bing using different frontend
Not the search engine. The Android app has a feature called App Tracking Protection that blocks trackers in other apps, akin to PiHole, but run on the device.
I get the impression it might just be really hard to run your own search engine, so a new frontend is the best we can do.
Essentially, It really isnt that hard.
But
A) there is no unified project for the masses.
B) it is very hard to create a universal search engine that gives you needed info for something extremely unexpected like “reggae feline flames scanner” .
Yeah, I mean a good search engine, comparable to Google. Even if the software is doable that’s a lot of data that has to be scraped and stored.
It would be dfficult to keep all kinds of random things in an affordable database.
I’m more concerned about the meaning of life. Which, conveniently is 42.
duckcuckgo is obsolete. Use searx.space
I hear people frequently say this.
Searx is basically a proxy. If you had an actual proxy… you would achieve the exact same benefits. Its good for making it difficult… or extremely difficult to tie a person’s real identity, directly to their search query.
Another thing that searx does is sends your query to google. This is not good for privacy. But sometimes it gives you additional results.