I have no doubt some of their AI answers have antivax and injecting bleach recommendations from all over the web as part of their training regime.

qwant = 95% bing results, startpage = 98% google results. They are slimmer. They don’t keep your search history or ip address. better for privacy but not much better for search results.

it shouldn’t have been because they return google search results and not bing

kagi is the best but it will cost you $10 a month. It’s been worth it to me, but probably not to everyone.

qwant uses bing and is mostly a proxy for it. Startpage is a proxy for google. the only thing they really do is protect your privacy, they don’t give you better search results.

we aren’t talking about using it to -benefit- human society like discovering new proteins or vaccines. We’re talking about it fucking up search results on google and generating billions of new sites with fucking spam. It’s a tool, but it’s being completely misused and ruining the internet.

are you using a VPN? turned off location settings?

I literally don’t see any AI blurbs at all in my searches. I wonder if one of my 4 ad blockers is killing the javascript element.

how do you guys get these things? I never see any summaries like that. I wonder if one of my adblockers is killing google AI lmao. Do you have to be logged into your google account? I never log into google any more.

Yeah, they aren’t going to cut you a deal or show lenience that they can’t show later. Lawyer up immediately. Fuck that “we’re on your side” stuff. They are not on your side as long as they see you as a potential criminal

This time we’ll be ready for his sorry ass.

I think you mean “encryption with backdoors”

the main thing for you is to stay off your phone as well. Kids watch their parents closely and humans have an in built need for “fairness”, if they see you addicted to it they will never stop wanting to do the same.

it’s not a ban. It’s highly likely China will allow Tiktok to split off a USA version before the deadline is up, if they don’t get it tossed in court. TikTok isn’t going anywhere.

Bro, there are echo chambers and there are fascist hangouts, and while a fascist hangout (project2025 favoring forums) is a subset of echo chambers, not all echo chambers are Fascist Hangouts.

this thing was doomed from the start and the unanimous vote of the Supreme Court shows that. Y’all are overlooking the fact that this keeps red states from taking Biden off the ballot too.

if it’s not ghost pepper you’re not really getting the full experience.

gun and bullets

turnout for young voters (at least in US history) has always been low, people don’t get into politics usually until they hit their 30s

You don’t need to get “involved” just go get registered and fkn vote, It has a much bigger net effect that holding up signs on a street.