• DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Kagi. Privacy focussed, no ads, and excellent results with options for sorting preferred sources to appear at the top, or not. Costs money but man, it’s fast and good in the way Google was back in the day. Some plans also include anonymous access to a variety of LLMs though they are older models, and if they can run them locally, they do. Really liking it.

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      24 hours ago

      FWIW the founder of Kagi is adamant that subscribers must accept part of the subscruption money being sent to Russia (Yandex, fully govt-controlled) and has refused all attempts at excluding it. When questions started appearing he even tried claiming Yandex isn’t even russian.

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            12 hours ago

            Thank you!

            EDIT: Okay, reading the replies there it seems like this is a virtue signalling issue rather than something specifically wrong with Yandex search results. Like how some people tried to start a boycott of Proton over a tweet that praised a Trump appointment, or accused Ladybird browser of being “transphobic” because someone tried to discuss gender pronouns in the issue tracker and was told it was not the right place.

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              Not wanting to financially contribute to a country that’s invaded and has been performing genocide on its neighbor, and has been actively waging hybrid wars on European and US democracies is not virtue signaling.

              Also, this.

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          20 hours ago

          Ngl I don’t get these people always being like “Source?”

          Just look it up bruh it takes less time than to comment

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            12 hours ago

            Asking the person who purports to be an expert on the situation to provide some context is much faster than someone who knows nothing about it, like myself, trying to find it.

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            16 hours ago

            Yea, it’s gets to sounding like playground argument tactics “nuh uh!” (which is basically sophistry).

            Even when I’m being genuinely curious these days, I try to ask for a source by making it a convo, like “do you remember where you came across that or what should I search for to get good results”, instead of “source?”.

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      24 hours ago

      I swapped to Kagi this month. It’s refreshing. I’ll probably end up on the $10/month plan. They also have a library pilot program I’m trying to get my academic library to look into.

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        21 hours ago

        I used it for almost a year at the lowest tier, then got the couples plan more recently and it has high spouse approval factor, even though there was some initial setup