Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

I like how the search engine is the product instead of <em>me</em>.

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Great write-up. I'm choosing to stay with DDG's Bing-stanked offering for now, but consider this endorsement as worth keeping in mind.

That being said, inquiring minds want to know: how often does one need to search for "pierogis near me" ?

 

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So I disagree with your belief that it is not an inherent right, because it always has been.

"The first one is free," the man said.

 

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To advertisers. Advertisers obviously find this data valuable because it allows them to advertise which is difficult to do on a site without advertisements.

And to me, it should be said, and that Google and other middleman leeches on society shove their foot in the door with the flimsiest of pretenses, then peek into my medicine cabinet, take notes on my bookshelves, and look over my shoulder at my purchases, viewing habits, and rabbit hole explorations for their own profit while resisting entreaties to just fucking cut it out at all turns, is deplorable.

Those who work for them contribute to this miasma. Those who fund them are the root of much of the ill in our society.

They are a cancerous rot.

 

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AS OFTEN AS ONE WANTS

It worries me if he hasn't found one good place yet.

Unless while traveling. THAT I get.

 

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I know I'm nobody, but I know I'm also not alone in asking this -- please don't tone down the vitriol in the future, we can handle it

The Ars staff saving the deleted scenes for the extras section in the comments is a prudent editorial choice. Maybe not the provocative one, but sometimes that’s more fun in the short term than in the long term.

 

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It may be idealistic and naive, but I'm pretty sure when people say "information wants to be free" they mean free as in speech, not free as in beer.

No, they mean free as in air, ignoring the TANSTAAFL element of socializing only parts of the value equation.