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> paid search engines, [...], maps Can you find me one? The only one I know about is Kagi which is in beta and invite-only. The problem with the current statu
by Nextgrid 5y ago
> paid search engines, [...], maps
Can you find me one? The only one I know about is Kagi which is in beta and invite-only.
The problem with the current status-quo is that as long as advertising powered by illicit data collection is possible in practice, it's not viable for a paid service to compete.
> Just change it for yourself and then you’re good.
It doesn't matter what you do if ad-tech scum will track you anyway and create a shadow profile by tricking your friends into giving out information about you such as how Facebook infers social graphs (including non-users) by sneaking into people's contacts lists.
- endisneigh 5y agoTry out Neeva in addition to Kagi. If you pay and get your friends to, it’ll compete. > It doesn't matter what you do if ad-tech scum will track you anyway Stay away from sites that use trackers and you won’t be tracked. I recommend turning off JavaScript and sticking to plain text sites.
- mopsi 5y ago> Stay away from sites that use trackers and you won’t be tracked. That's not enough. If your friends give Instagram and the likes access to their contacts to "find friends", then they unintentionally leak your social circle too, and data warehouses sell this info to the highest bidder, lowest bidder, and everyone inbetween, and government agencies also tap into this for mass surveillance. Even the goddamn Mastercard sells transaction histories to Google. Everything's scraped and sold, doesn't matter if you use the internet at all. Any notion of user consent to this is ridiculous, because barely anyone understands how much is truly collected, shared and linked together from various sources, and then used and abused. That's why Google, Facebook et al fight so furiously against legislation like the GDPR that mandates informed (!) consent.