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Many "alternative" search engines are better for privacy, but they are still vulnerable to censorship, because they rely on g**gle and m*crosoft's indices for their search results. This isn't a deep-hidden secret either, many of them disclose what search index they use on the "about" page, for example:

There are still search engines that (claim to) maintain their own index. Most surprisingly, br*ve:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

These are private companies that are govern and controlled by commercial incentives. And are in their all right to do so. The users are always free to change service.

But as always, conviniance beats everything. Most people don't care or are not ready to go back. E.g. use mp3s and manually upload files to choosen device or if even supported. aux contact that was removed. Music and movie resolution loss due to streaming most people don't care.. They are frustrated when the airpod doesn't work with Android device accept the situation and go along with their lives. Most western people download their games and do not think for a second that all games are useless when an new device is announced and the company can resell same game again even thought if thought from design to be back compatible.

Censorship are applicable for governments enforcing laws and regulations that impact what you are allowed to do or say which in many parts of the world unconstitutional. If people even put an ounce of energy to complain on their governmentns that they do on companies we would live in a better world.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

If people want to find alternative search engines check out this actively maintained list

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Google, Microsoft, Brave.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't trust brave, especially given who the owner is

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

I've been spelling this for years...

Why would you trust a browser whose business model is based on user activity tracking.

Who before they were even remotely popular or profitable had one of the largest ad campaigns I've ever seen for a tech product. Who's funding that and where is their value proposition coming from for that funding?

Hell no I'm not going to trust it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

we're gettin' censored here 🫠

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

don't you worry. imma make a meme specially highlighting you :p

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

whats the backword R logo?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Damn, that's my go-to and I didn't even recognize it's logo. Shows up as a Y on the site for me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Best reverse image search there is yo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Why is that their logo? There's no R in Yandex.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Let me break this down:

Я: “Ya” sound

н: “N” sound

д: “D” sound

е: “Eh” sound

к: “K” sound

с: “S” sound, or “C” sound as in “citrus”

Other fun facts:

  1. There aren’t usually separate letters for capitals and lower case, only being written either full or half size.
  2. Cyrillic isn’t hugely or vastly different from Greek. The л (L) is often written like lambda (Λ), and п (P) is very much like pi (Π). Other similar letters include Д (Delta), Р (Rho), Ф (Phi) and Г (Gamma), in no particular order.
  3. Водка (Vodka, almost trivial) literally means “heavy water”. Water is «Вода». Possibly the most important word in all of the Motherland.
  4. Like virtually all major Eastern languages (and most languages in general), Cyrillic is pretty phonetically consistent. Letters basically never make multiple sounds, unless accents and such are used.
  5. ВORДТ (The show), which doesn’t even fit in English OR Russian, is transliterated to “VORDT”, which I find kinda funny.

I don’t actually know Russian, or any Cyrillic language. You’re welcome. Bonus dog for engagement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

There is if you use the Cyrillic alphabet because Yandex is Russian

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Worse are subtle manipulations imho. There are scientific experiments showing that changing the order of search results can alter how people vote. How much outside of the spectrum suppressed because it doesn't sell as well? Who knows!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Which search engine.is R?/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Wow I checked Yandex and its pretty neat. Also its Russian so your search data might be safe from US and its big tech. Would you recommend using it ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I've recently started using it and the top results tend to be exactly what I'm looking for

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Generally no, but if your hitting a dead end looking for things on Google/Bing based engines, it doesn't hurt giving Yandex a shot.

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