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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago

Good thing search engines are optimized for advertising instead of utility!

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 0 points 1 year ago

I use searx and DNS level adblocking. Online ads are almost a completely foreign concept for me as 99.9% of the time they just never even load.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

I remember when Google used to be perfectly functional as long as you knew the right search tools. Now it thinks it knows what I'm searching for better than I do, and that almost always means pointing me towards something someone paid for lol

[-] Alkider@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Is advanced searching any better? I wouldn't know now because searx but when I used it before it helped to keep the results focused.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

It's better, but sometimes google will decide you didn't really mean to type the string inside the quotation marks. Advanced search tools used to be rock solid!

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