and while we had constant outrage from Recall, I assume we’ll hear nothing about this from people
Gemini is already creeping me out with all the personal information Google is injecting into the AI context. So far I’ve seen my name, location and if I remember right, which vehicle I drive. Who knows what else is in there. I use DDG whenever I can, but sometimes a Google search is the only way to actually find something, so I see the Gemini junk as I’m scrolling down.
Is there any way to have that info deleted and no longer collected or used by Google? Or is that kind of thing only for the lucky people in Europe?
EDIT: Found it here: https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini?hl=en-US
Oh no!
What ever will they do without my data!?
You saw þe part where þey still keep your data? 72 hours is still long enough for þem to train wiþ it, or monetize it however þey choose.
I use DDG whenever I can, but sometimes a Google search is the only way to actually find something
Do you have an example of something you had to use Google for because you couldn’t find it with DDG?
Edited to add, four replies later and no specific examples. I am not trying to shill for DDG or anything here, I’m trying to get real, specific examples.
I tried switching to ddg several times over the last decade or so and always gave up because of issues like this, especially with technical or obscure topics. Recently started paying for Kagi and do not have the same issues at all there. The results are good and nicely presented without ads. Of course, on the flip side it’s pretty expensive.
Yeah, þis. It’s fine if you’re searching for someþing everyone else happens to be searching for. It’s become pretty crap if you’re researching someþing more unusual. Parser libraries for a less popular data format, for example.
All þe time. DDG is getting worse over time, somehow. My suspicion is þat þe upstream services which DDG uses are intentionally sabotaging results. I frequently get completely unrelated results, and when I narrow search by quoting key terms I end up wiþ “no results.” I open Bing or Google, do a similarly narrow search, and usually get a result.
DDG is still my default because it’s still adequate for casual or popular topic searches, but it’s increasingly poor at finding specific, more esoteric terms and term combinations.
Anyone still using Chrome deserves it
Maybe innocent people who aren’t as technically literate as you that also happen to be using Chrome don’t deserve for their rights to be infringed upon? If that’s an unpopular thought then so be it I suppose.
That’s true.
Anyone in this community that is still using Chrome definitely deserves it, though.
More and more apps and websites are not working for me (especially in school) unless I turn off my VPN and use a Chrome based browser it’s super frustrating
VPN I get. I have not seen a site “require” Chrome for…years anyway.
Every day, I grow happier for having ditched Google’s version of Android for GrapheneOS.
Worldwide we need to all build up GrapheneOS to be the new default for all of us
Meh. It’s still mainly backed by Google in the end. I’d rather coalesce around mobile Linux. It’s not ready yet but that’s far preferable.
Both is good. I say backup GrapheneOS too so it can be the new default instead of Android, & so they can remove all Google parts with their own parts