I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
I switched to DuckDuckGo a while back and even that was beneficial. I can always tell when I’m on a different machine and I forget to switch the default search… It’s wild how fast they’ve fallen.
These days I setup ollama with open webui to host my own ai. Then you can connect Searxng to that and have the AI search the web for you and return no nonsense results.
I would add that if isa News website, the 1000 words article is just a verbatim copy from Reuters.
I want more info about [something happening], not to read the same article with minimal information again and again.
Missed the half-dozen boilerplate SEO sites that scraped the most generic and unhelpful information possible that feature links to whatever barely tangential software or product they might be selling.
Yeah but you get it all 1000 times faster and mum can still use the phone at the same time
For what is worth, I have yet to see a temu ad
And politically biased content… fuck you Reddit
inrilevant
Who made this?
There used to be a link at the bottom for who made it, but it appears to be missing now.
Since they’re talking about JQuery, I think that knowledge is lost to time.
noice
I think they forgot to mention ads
Apart from usual ubo, reader mode and friends trained eyes are very effective content filter. We all can glance on a search result page or an article and immediately know if it’s content or low effort craps.
Stay out of mainstream social media, stop consuming ‘feeds’. Stay in the realms of personal sites, blogs and sane link aggregators/rss to keep mental peace of not having to filter garbage with eyes everyday.
Ah yes. Before the dark times. When dragons lay sleeping.
I think most websites have better UI now. Sure not all of them, but generally they are more appealing and easy to navigate from any device.
Man… Try saying that with a non standard size phone screen… Or the terrible UI to force you into downloading an app.
Can’t even check the balance on a Dave and busters card without a masters degree in computer science.
Don’t forget cookie settings notifications and a pop up asking for you to subscribe to an email newsletter.
Why aren’t you using ublock origin like a rational adult?
l use it
Are Temu the ones who say “pretend you’re a billionaire” or something but their ads always have the most bizarre, undesirable-looking, nasty, cheap, plastic things in them?
“Shop like a billionaire”
“Uh, ok”
closes Temu app, calls Sotheby’s
Yep. That’s the ones. Or really pornographic or absurd. Cause buying more makes you feel like you have control of your life when you can buy a new shirt that dissolves when you wash it because you can’t afford to take a day off to walk around a park.
