• Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Well they give people a web page to put their private searches in and then they perform a search and amongst peers has historically done it the best. That’s not a minor detail, it’s not particularly realistic to use the modern web without a search engine and they’re not secretive about the business model. That doesn’t make it particularly great, especially for privacy, but people are unlikely to pay for web searching.

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      1 year ago

      Thats what frustrates me so much. People pay for their morning coffee, their ride to work, streaming TV subscriptions, Spotify and so on… but when it comes to searching the web, it should just be provided as a free service?

      I know traditionally it was, but now we have no privacy and ads everywhere. Somehow people are OK with that I guess. But im really not…