^Qn.

How to reduce the enshittification on various services.

( eg: Payment sites instead of Apps, Ads in Facebook site - I rarely use FB )

Any browser addons, scripts are welcome.

  • Wanangwa_Bamidele
    4·
    6 months ago

    Duckduckgo just fetch api from google and bing. So, basically you search on Gooogle or Bing using different frontend

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      6 months ago

      I get the impression it might just be really hard to run your own search engine, so a new frontend is the best we can do.

      • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Essentially, It really isnt that hard.
        But
        A) there is no unified project for the masses.
        B) it is very hard to create a universal search engine that gives you needed info for something extremely unexpected like “reggae feline flames scanner” .

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          6 months ago

          Yeah, I mean a good search engine, comparable to Google. Even if the software is doable that’s a lot of data that has to be scraped and stored.

          • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            It would be dfficult to keep all kinds of random things in an affordable database.

            I’m more concerned about the meaning of life. Which, conveniently is 42.