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Had to look up what that even was and no way am I paying $108 a year plus tax (just include the tax in the price ffs) for a search engine
The alternative is ads.
The alternative is ublock, or a well-tuned noscript.
That plus a well configured pi-hole. I don’t even get ads in my iPhone apps thanks to it.
That's not how the real world works though. Platforms need money to exist. An actual alternative is FOSS hosted by individuals, either because they have free capacity or funded by voluntary donations. Just as the fediverse works, which is why I use uBlock/Alternative clients on YT/Twitch and send money to the creators I watch directly. My goal is to harm those platforms directly, because better alternatives exist.
I'm not aware of an equivalent for search engines, that is acceptably maintained and mature.To my knowledge, there isn't. That's why for the time being, the best search engine I have found is DuckDuckGo. If you really wanted to go all out, use SearXNG, which is FOSS, and relies on self-hosted platforms, however it requires a bit of tweaking, and some instances seem to be blocked on some harsh work firewalls, at least in my experience.
no way am I paying $108 a year plus tax
Fucking yanks never shut up about taxes, Jesus christ get a life
(just include the tax in the price ffs)
I apologise my liege, may those that have insulted you perish.