if you use an android phone:

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116607132555242907

if you use an android phone:

1. get SIMPLE SEARCH
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.tobiasbielefeld.searchbar

2.set up your search engines:

noai.duckduckgo.com
startpage.com

3. if you are like me and search a lot for EDUCATIONAL info on crafting tools and fabrics but get a lot of SHOPPING links, create a specialized search excluding the big offenders:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s -site:amazon.com -site:walmart.com -site:pinterest.com -site:ebay.com -site:alibaba.com -site:shein.com

enjoy your degoogled, deamazoned searches

[firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net]

@blogdiva

Ooh, that's brilliant! I'm already using noai.duckduckgo.com but I hadn't thought to set up the search to exclude shopping sites. Thank you!

I also use kagi.com paid search, but:
1. Not everyone can afford it. (And before anyone says, "If you're not the paying customer, you're the product", remember that under modern capitalism, if you're a paying customer you're *still* also the product.)
2. Because it's proprietary, we can't prove Kagi keeps our data private. Just because they don't serve ads does not mean they keep my searches on heart disease secret.

[tock@corteximplant.com]

@firebreathingduck @blogdiva 3. Enshittification corrupts everything, especially when actual money changes hands. Not saying ditch Kagi but stay vigilant. The terms of service changes that are the quietest are the ones people miss.

[femme_mal@mstdn.social]

@blogdiva I use StartPage. I refuse to use DuckDuckGo because it has never been fully transparent about the partnership it had with Russian search engine Yandex, with which it did not end its relationship until 2022.

[thelancashireman@hostux.social]

@blogdiva

Already done. but I still worry about google's evil influence in everything else on my phone.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@blogdiva idk if they've already found a workaround, but Start Page being mostly an anonymised proxy for Google means they might have difficulty once Google rolls out their next major change to the website.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@firebreathingduck @blogdiva Kagi also started going hard into "AI" awhile back

[bob@beamship.mpaq.org]

@blogdiva

Note: DDG uses data from the others. I hope to have #TidySearch decentrilzed like ActivityPub AKA the fedizlverse some day. You would think people here would be all over it... No AI, no java, no tracking... Why is this so diffictult for peopke here?