DeGoogle Yourself

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A community for those that would like to get away from Google.

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submitted 2 months ago by pahulf@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I've been using DuckDuck Go since leaving Google Search, but that seems to be the first step away. I'm not keen on their AI assist. I tried Start Page, but the first four results were ads. I don't mind paying a small fee for good search. So Brave Search or Kagi?

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hell, I'm sold. I started paying for email, so I guess I will have to make a digital privacy budget.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Your first 100 searches are free so start with a free account. Like you I've started paying for stuff I used to get for free like search and emails but I do think it's worth it if you aren't breaking the bank to pay for it.

Kagi's option to raise/lower/block sites is probably worth it on its own.

Plus despite reddit fighting hard against it, you can still get results that point to old.reddit.com. If you google with site:old.reddit.com it gives you new reddit results. Kagi has a similar problem, except in the advanced settings you can add a url rewrite that changes reddit.com to old.reddit.com 🙂

Sorry getting carried away but I love it as someone who does a fair bit of searching.