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[–] CodexArcanum 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some day I'll grow tired enough of Bing-in-a-Duck-Mask to pay for Kagi or Metager, I guess...

[–] half_built_pyramids 16 points 1 month ago

Kagi is Google in a mask

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Kagi is going AI too.

[–] TootSweet 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I'm highly pissed off about that too. :(

At least there's a "turn it off" option. But that doesn't persist between cookie deletions. So it still pisses me off.

I don't think there's a way to turn off Google's AI-in-search-results BS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've seen someone say there's a way to turn off Google's, but it's easier to just scroll past than look into lol

[–] BigDaddySlim 4 points 1 month ago

Add this as a filter in uBlock Origin; google.com##.hdzaWe

May change later, I know it's already changed before.

[–] pdxfed -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Brave you can turn off the AI bullshit but not on mobile if you search private by default and wipe cookies because it doesn't remember your preference. At least for desktop it doesn't have that shit

[–] TootSweet 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but Brave has cryptocurrency shit built in which makes me less than enthused to use it.

[–] pdxfed -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not familiar with that...like ads or something?

[–] TootSweet 2 points 1 month ago

Just browsing the Wikipedia Page for Brave, it's got built-in:

  • Brave Wallet - a cryptocurrency wallet.
  • Brave Swap - a cryptocurrency exchange service.
  • Blockchain Domain Names support.
  • IPFS support - Ok, IPFS isn't cryptocurrency or blockchain shit, but it is blockchain-adjacent.
  • And arguably the biggest cryptocurrency feature, Basic Attention Tokens - a cryptocurrency Brave users can earn by viewing ads in Brave.
[–] rayquetzalcoatl 2 points 1 month ago

Awh for fucks sake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I love how everyone is shoving this AI Assistant on all of us. But they forget that we can find an incompetent assistant anywhere, no need to make one for every website or device.