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Any “small-web” search engines? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I use Duckduckgo, but I realised these big(ish) search engines give me all the commercialised results. Duckduckgo has been going down the slope for years, but not at such a rate as Google or Bing has.

I want to have a search engine that gives me all the small blogs and personal sites.

Does something like this exist?

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[–] troed@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm hoping just as Proton do good free stuff using money I pay them (Visionary account) Kagi does/will do the same. The Internet as a whole needs to stop being ad-supported.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I refuse to believe Proton when they do advertisements lol. They also are being pretty suspicious with ignoring XMR support since years of people requesting it. If they ever even considered it a bit, their new shit Proton Wallet wouldn't allow you to store (or only store) bitcoin, which we all know has nothing that protects your privacy.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Monero support is a massive red flag for criminal activity, even by the very low standards of crypto.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No. It's for privacy. If they don't support anonymous payments, there's literally no reason to host a .onion site just to fool people. I'd say that's a big red flag from a "privacy respecting" company.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are pros/cons to anonymous payments. It's a bit sophomoric to claim privacy is impossible without anonymous payments.

There are most definitely many use cases for .onion sites without any sort of payments ("anonymous" or otherwise).

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, tell them that when they were trying to deanonymize tor users

[–] capital@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Internet as a whole needs to stop being ad-supported.

I'm with you to an extent but it also makes me consider what my online experience would have been if I needed money to do anything online. The internet was a huge part of my childhood and I definitely didn't have money to spend on it.

We barely had enough to get internet when I was ~10yrs old and it was much later when we got something better than dial up.

[–] troed@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

There will always be those who offer things for free, always has been. Granted, we might've gotten used to higher quality (paid for by ads) and will need to "settle" for lower quality if we don't pay with money - but I think for humanity's sake this is something that needs to be done.