Kumatomic

What else will corporations pay Congress to decide that is in corporations’ best interest for us to not see?

Ads in the feed now? Yikes, that’s reason enough for me to switch before I’m forced to update it.

I mean stopping Windows updates is really more a win than a loss half the time. They’ve forcefully installed so much of the shitware in Windows 10 updates that makes Windows 11 awful. It took me an hour to strip all the bullshit off of my partner’s Windows 10 that he left to auto-update.

Gotta love that punishment for keeping your private information, well private.

Undeserved reputation built on actually intelligent people that worked for him.

I tried them a few years ago before I knew more about things like this, their CEO, etc. I had a problem with them continuously taking over my home page on desktop with their own homepage (much the way Firefox on android does now) after every update. I contacted them on social media where they went on a two day stent of making fun of me for having a problem and gaslighting me that there was a problem because zero other people had ever complained. Super professional there.

It was an absolutely unnecessary comment and in no way a relevant quesiton. Odds are I’m better versed in technology than you. Don’t act like you were reasonable and you’re the one being attacked now. You’re one of those people who thinks they have the right to say whatever crappy thing they want and then look all confused when you illicit whatever response you absolutely deserved. Then accuse the other person of exactly what you started. I’m not facilitating this childish banter any further. Have whatever day you deserve.

You got me there, but only you didn’t at all and I just feel sorry for you. Great baseless conjecture though.

They really are both just awful. I’ve yet to find a search engine as good as Google was 10-15 years ago.

Well still explains why it’s so bad. Bing is just as bad with paid results, to the point it has to pay people to try to get them to use it.

Nothing based on Chrome is an option because Google is evil and thinks it can control my computer, Brave customer service literally made fun of me for not liking the way they took over my homepage regularly years ago, Opera is just adware, and Firefox is about all that’s left. Even though it’s losing more options every update and on mobile it’s complete garbage now with everything centered around their homepage so they can try to serve me ads that I can luckily turn off for now.

I don’t understand why people find DuckDuckGo a good alternative. It’s better for privacy yes, but the search results are just as useless and unrelated because they’re based on Google which is just a big ad server now. Every result is find 10 “XYZ’s” on Amazon or Walmart, or the other results for different companies.