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[–] CodexArcanum 19 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Kagi is Google in a mask

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Kagi is going AI too.

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

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

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

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

[–] TootSweet 2 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Awh for fucks sake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks 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.