You haven't looked hard enough then. There's Firefox, waterfox, brave, opera, list goes on and on. Also, don't use Google when you search. Use duckduckgo or searx.me
firefox got a guy fired for political views, waterfox the last I used it had no future support plan, brave last I used it didn't render video correctly, opera is owned by the chinese, and the problems go on and on...
I've already started to use other search engines, but I still use google when those fail.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate it, but I don't really know of any other alternative. And I'm sure when you mention one, someone at some point will come along and say that is compromised too.
Unstoppable deep state AI tracking machine or hippie programmers bloatware?
Shit sandwich or slightly moldy bread. Easy decision.
People need to stop paying with their dear life to obtain a little convenience. It's not that hard to use a slightly slower browser and not buy an echo listening device and switch on the lights by hand like a peasant.
I've said for many years the so-called ad bots have no commercial business model that makes any sense so it means they are most likely back door ways to track people and gather surveillance. It's funny they can't find anything about Hillary but they sure watch the rest of us closely.
Even then I find Firefox Quantum is just as fast as Chrome is. Inb4 "compromised!" Either way, it's way less jewy than Google Chrome. There are of course even better, yet a tad bit slower, options available, like Waterfox, Opera, Brave, so on.
Waterfox is forking away from the way Firefox is going to be doing things (basically switching over to being nothing but a Chrome theme). So it will slowly, over-time, lose binary compatibility with any new Firefox stuff, as I understand it. But it will continue to be updated and work just as intended. For the time being, though: it's an almost exact replica of firefox: with all the telemetry, spyware, wrong-think-blocking, bloatware, etc, removed.
I just started using Brave and have been happy with the results thus far. Just recently implemented searx.me as the default search engine and have been happy with that as well.
Google is forcing the door wide open to be replaced by a unbiased search engine by a more intelligent culture... any brahs with programming skills ready to become the next billionaires?
It's not really the lack of skills the problem, the linux/open source crowd would have come up with a more than just descent search engine a loooooong time ago if this was only a matter of work hours and skills as it is for user hosted
The real problem, is bandwidth/server cost quite frankly
Imagine the infrastructure you need to keep up with the demand, it just doesn't come cheap, who's going to pay for that? You'll need to run ads and shit to pay for that correct? Well, pretty much google's business model then, with the same types of hassle/constraints attached with it...
But let's say you solved the hardware related problem, like P2P based search engine or whatever, the problem is gone
Second problem is the sanitization of search results, you're going to have to filter those results because you evidently don't want to deliver the raw results, people would be horrified, every time you search for any given random crap pic you would end up swimming in a sea of pedo and murder porn
There are AI algos for that, but you also have to have humans doing it as a second layer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GLo2YfwHRI, and you're going to have to pay for those humans, and they'll have to have some level of permission to delete this or that form searches... Which in the case of a P2P based search engine... Starts to be problematic
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Mustard_Monkey ago
Don't use Google Chrome problem solved.
bluefascist ago
what is an actual replacement though?
I've tried a number of other browsers, and I haven't been finding ones that are even functional with the exception of firefox which I also don't like.
Anyone else having good luck?
Forevermary ago
Brave or ungoogled-chromium
CaptnObvius ago
Iridium, its Chrome code with all the Google BS supposedly removed. Someone else my have more detailed info about it.
IsaacJan ago
...Fucking Waterfox. You faggots don't even try.
Mustard_Monkey ago
Brave Browser is amazeballs.
brewpot ago
Netscape navigator
TheTrigger ago
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UnknownAlias365 ago
You haven't looked hard enough then. There's Firefox, waterfox, brave, opera, list goes on and on. Also, don't use Google when you search. Use duckduckgo or searx.me
bluefascist ago
firefox got a guy fired for political views, waterfox the last I used it had no future support plan, brave last I used it didn't render video correctly, opera is owned by the chinese, and the problems go on and on...
I've already started to use other search engines, but I still use google when those fail.
UnknownAlias365 ago
I hear you. That's why I use Firefox. It's cucked yes, but it isn't outright radical like Google and works well.
Omnidempotent ago
Opera was sold to the Chinese and ddg is run by a jew
UnknownAlias365 ago
Well, like I said in another comment, no matter what you mention, someone will come along and say "compromised!"
Omnidempotent ago
Just letting you know, friend
UnknownAlias365 ago
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate it, but I don't really know of any other alternative. And I'm sure when you mention one, someone at some point will come along and say that is compromised too.
phoenix883 ago
Unstoppable deep state AI tracking machine or hippie programmers bloatware?
Shit sandwich or slightly moldy bread. Easy decision.
People need to stop paying with their dear life to obtain a little convenience. It's not that hard to use a slightly slower browser and not buy an echo listening device and switch on the lights by hand like a peasant.
wesmoc ago
“Switch” on the lights.. wait what? There is a switch on the light which does what exactly? Oh. Turn it on and off. Woahhhhh.. so cool. #mindblown
halinflorida ago
I've said for many years the so-called ad bots have no commercial business model that makes any sense so it means they are most likely back door ways to track people and gather surveillance. It's funny they can't find anything about Hillary but they sure watch the rest of us closely.
UnknownAlias365 ago
Even then I find Firefox Quantum is just as fast as Chrome is. Inb4 "compromised!" Either way, it's way less jewy than Google Chrome. There are of course even better, yet a tad bit slower, options available, like Waterfox, Opera, Brave, so on.
Jigawhojogaboo ago
Vivaldi, brave, chromium
bluefascist ago
vivaldi is new to me, will check it out.
talmoridor-x ago
Qutebrowser
Low_Paid_Porno_Noob ago
Incognito browser.
drschwabe ago
Did you try Vivaldi?
pcdude ago
Never had issues with waterfox
bluefascist ago
i thought it was done with updates
thats not going to be good in the long run
TheTrigger ago
Waterfox is forking away from the way Firefox is going to be doing things (basically switching over to being nothing but a Chrome theme). So it will slowly, over-time, lose binary compatibility with any new Firefox stuff, as I understand it. But it will continue to be updated and work just as intended. For the time being, though: it's an almost exact replica of firefox: with all the telemetry, spyware, wrong-think-blocking, bloatware, etc, removed.
pcdude ago
Mine just updated a couple of days ago, so, having heard nothing of that I cannot say one way or the other.
skywalker7777 ago
Waterfox has been around for seven years, and there's a big update coming soon.
bluefascist ago
then I stand corrected. it's probably time to check into these things again and find a winner.
ErrantCognition ago
I just use Edge. I already use Windows so eh. It's not the same turd bag it was two years ago
skywalker7777 ago
It still fucking sucks. You must be a technically imbecile autistic niggerfaggot if you use that piece of shit.
DownRange ago
Brave?
DasReich ago
I just started using Brave and have been happy with the results thus far. Just recently implemented searx.me as the default search engine and have been happy with that as well.
NiggadermCQ ago
I'm using searx for now.
Looking into setting up yacy.
bluefascist ago
i tried it some time ago and found it lacking in major ways.
perhaps its time to give it another go.
I found video rendering was the issue with almost every browser other than chrome and ff
RedditIsTheBest111 ago
Waterfox, brave, or Chromium?
SHIVASHIVASHIVA ago
Google is forcing the door wide open to be replaced by a unbiased search engine by a more intelligent culture... any brahs with programming skills ready to become the next billionaires?
Mustard_Monkey ago
If Startpage dumps being powered by Google I would use it more. I use Duck Dick Go until someone creates a better search engine.
kalgon ago
It's not really the lack of skills the problem, the linux/open source crowd would have come up with a more than just descent search engine a loooooong time ago if this was only a matter of work hours and skills as it is for user hosted
The real problem, is bandwidth/server cost quite frankly
A google is like, idk, billions of requests a day. I throw that number randomly and... https://www.quora.com/How-many-search-queries-does-Google-serve-worldwide-every-day-How-many-repeated-queries-are-processed-per-day Yeah it was 10,8 billion requests in 2016
Imagine the infrastructure you need to keep up with the demand, it just doesn't come cheap, who's going to pay for that? You'll need to run ads and shit to pay for that correct? Well, pretty much google's business model then, with the same types of hassle/constraints attached with it...
But let's say you solved the hardware related problem, like P2P based search engine or whatever, the problem is gone
Second problem is the sanitization of search results, you're going to have to filter those results because you evidently don't want to deliver the raw results, people would be horrified, every time you search for any given random crap pic you would end up swimming in a sea of pedo and murder porn
There are AI algos for that, but you also have to have humans doing it as a second layer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GLo2YfwHRI, and you're going to have to pay for those humans, and they'll have to have some level of permission to delete this or that form searches... Which in the case of a P2P based search engine... Starts to be problematic
Schreiber ago
Uh, some jewish bankers who print money?
TheTrigger ago
Pretty sure that's the dudes running https://searx.me — you can even download and self-run the codebase, if you don't even trust them with your data: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx