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Now that Google , FB wants to trap us and control every aspect of the Internet browsing, Is it even possible to break free.

Or creating new Internet is a unrealistic idea ?

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt 45 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Seems like all we need is a search engine that only returns sites that don't shove unwanted content down your throat. Tall order though.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I've started using Duckduckgo, less specifically for the search and more for the bangs. Fed up of search surfacing sites they care about. I can now quickly search wikipedia with !w etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not advocating for Google here, but you can do that with "site: wikipedia.org" as a search operator in Google.

[–] vector_zero 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

DDG's bangs actually use the site's own search feature though, rather than narrowing the search engine's results to a given site.

[–] Cocodapuf 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And, less typing. That's a plus for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah but that's slower and not using the sites specific search

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