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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.

    • Wanangwa_Bamidele
      4·
      6 months ago

      Duckduckgo just fetch api from google and bing. So, basically you search on Gooogle or Bing using different frontend

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        6 months ago

        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.

        • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          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” .

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
            1·
            6 months ago

            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.

            • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              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.

      • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        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.