Message from @pratel
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Says as Youtube reworks it's algorithm. As it fires James Damore. As it partners with Mastercard to learn everything you've bought. As it reworks it's search algorithm. As it partners with China to censor Chinese search results. As it fights internally over helping the CIA...
I really don't like Google
Google's been infiltrated by everyone imaginable. And they know everything.
I'll bet Google is eating these chatlogs, tbh
I don't think discord has any relationships with Google yet.
But I wouldn't be surprised if they get them at some point.
But I'm sure these chats will get into their hands at some point
What's the best browser/search engine then?
I use searx
It can be run as an instance on different servers
Brave + Duck Duck Go gets passed around here alot.
DDG is a meme
and likely steals your data
I'm not quite sure how much of that argument I buy.
Well, it's definitely confirmed that they save searches
how else can they have autocomplete?
The argument that they were founded by a person that sought to get lots of emails doesn't really prove anything. And while the NSA might be able to get in, that could be said of basically any country with an organized government.
I could think of lots of ways to do autocomplete without needing to save any particular search.
Well, think what you want, but I don't trust it because it is closed source, and because of the creator's history
Fair.
But, even if it is safe, searx is better in my opinion
I'll have to look into searx. This is the first time I've heard of it.
It's an open source meta search engine
It has a lot of instances to choose from
So an open source Dogpile?
Kind of
I'm going to write instance randomizer rn
so that you can search from a random instance each time
What's an instance?
I'm kinda new to this. Like, I'm a gamer but I'm not technical you feel me
In this case, a searx instance is a server running the searx search engine software
Oh okay
So it's like, every time you open it it's fresh
yeah
like it will choose a random instance to search on
there's already something like this already, but I want to make one that my browser recognizes as a search engine
I feel you