• jecht360@lemmy.world
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    Move to Firefox (or any non-Chromium browser really) and use a different search engine that’s not run by a giant corporation. I use DuckDuckGo.

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        It supposedly uses Bing and several other search results while suppressing content mills. I’m open to using anything though, DDG just happens to be the more privacy oriented one I went with.

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              Your understanding of the troll factories is quite off. According to the ex-employees and the publicly available social media accounts data, the average troll paid by the Russian government is someone who poses as a person living in the West and even uses some Western talking points, making them hard to distinguish from a real person. They also get people in the West out to protest for BLM and guns rights, for and against immigration, and other causes with the goal of facilitating discord, which then creates headlines in the Western media, not Russia Today as you’d expect.

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              So, you’re okay with being under the control of a company only showing you what they want.

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        Yes, so use SearX which uses all the search engines, including google, duckduckgo and Bing, but shares 0 of your data with them.

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      Or just pay Kagi. If you’re not paying they’re gonna have to get their money somewhere, and search is expensive.

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      I started getting targeted ads on DDG this morning. They were targeting my search terms, and Microsoft had bought the targets. Getting Edge ads in DDG is a hard stop for me.

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      Perhaps I’ll switch to Firefox when they actually start getting things together and start implementing the things people ask for instead of actively removing functionality deemed “too complicated”

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    Pretty much everything Google makes exists solely to power it’s ad service - including it’s search engine. That’s literally their whole business. Did anyone think that Google was building browsers just as a fun weekend project?

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    the Assistant team has admitted that the product does not have a market fit on mobile

    How is there not a market demand for a voice assistant on mobile devices?

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      I read this too and scratched my head. I would argue that voice assistants are more useful on a mobile device than a stationary one 💀

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    I haven’t verified this is still the case, but in the past every URL you typed into Chrome GoogleBot would then index shortly later.

    ETA: Did a test and it doesn’t seem to happen any more.

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      I work in SEO and have had many URLs that are orphaned and I go to them directly. It wasn’t until I asked Google to index via Search Console, or had it added to a site map and pinged Googlebot, that it would get indexed. You can live check if a page is indexed by using the site operator and entering the URL.

      If what you said was true, then even orphaned pages would be indexed from a visit and that just is not my experience as a professional.

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        Yeah I made a unique HTML page on Friday and retrieved it in a stock version of Chrome. As of today there have been no GoogleBot hits on it.

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    I have ecosia set as my default search engine on chrome. and only use chrome for those instances when firefox doesn’t serve the need.

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    Indeed.

    As Orion exists to complement Kagi search.

    Orion can be used fine with anything else though too circa the time of this post. Highly recommend both.

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      I’ve been loving Kagi, but I have no particular need for their browser.

      ETA: Oh, I see it’s only for iOS and macOS anyway. Maybe that ecosystem needed it, but I wouldn’t know.

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        Yep, though Linux is coming next “soon”.

        I like that Orion (via Kagi as the business) is directly aligned with MY interests as a human.

        Safari, I’m generally a fan of too as Apple is–for now–generally aligned with customer; but mostly annoyed that they force an extension to use a search not in their list. Also find the adblocking just “ok” in Safari.

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            Fun community. First and last time I’ll be chiming in here.

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              Ignore that dickhead hahaha

              Lemmy has the kind of hate boner for Apple that I had when I was a teenager, so I just assume these twats are still teens and will learn someday.