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summer_in_TX

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5. Brave and DuckDuckGo are much more secure than Google.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 04:25 PM

21 hrs ago

Plus Google buries information in ways that seem like censorship. When Texas House Democrats fled the state to try to stop redistricting, I wanted to find out how to donate. I searched with many different keywords and could never find it in a Google search engine. When I switched to DuckDuckGo, it came up easily.

Also Google's Chrome browser is extremely insecure. I've removed it from my devices.

India's TimesNowNews.com says:
"'Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions or cause denial of service (DoS) conditions on the targeted system," cybersecurity agency under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, reported.'

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Google Search as you know it is over [View all] highplainsdem 22 hrs ago OP

Everything you said, plus ai heats up our planet and uses up our water questionseverything 22 hrs ago #1

Crap... Bayard 22 hrs ago #2

I've been using Startpage for a couple years. Make7 20 hrs ago #8

Well I've been looking for ways to ditch Google for a long time. 1WorldHope 20 hrs ago #10

Google, as we knew it, was over and changed quite a while ago, before AI. RockRaven 22 hrs ago #3

Same here. It's been over for me for years now mdbl 22 hrs ago #4

Brave and DuckDuckGo are much more secure than Google. summer_in_TX 21 hrs ago #5

Will Bunch: Soon there'll be no new information to train AI on anything that happened after 2026 highplainsdem 21 hrs ago #6

The usual acronym ETTD should be edited slightlv 21 hrs ago #7

Remember the "World Wide Web"? I think back to the 1990s as the days of the Wild West FakeNoose 2 hrs ago #19

I've gotten in the habit of using the verb 'google' instead of 'search'. I'm trying to break out of that. Since I'm not eppur_se_muova 20 hrs ago #9

Fuck all AI until/unless that shit is HEAVILY regulated...something that sure as hell isn't happening under fascism. Karasu 18 hrs ago #11

There are many things a Google search will not find. BidenRocks 16 hrs ago #12

Google anything ... any search term ... then type "-AI" after the term FakeNoose 15 hrs ago #13

I do that (when I remember) but you still get AI content too. BlueSpot 14 hrs ago #14

+1 dalton99a 12 hrs ago #16

So basically the era of links is over Diraven 13 hrs ago #15

It was fun while it lasted. hunter 12 hrs ago #17

Cory Doctrow made a word for this:"enshitification". nt Shipwack 9 hrs ago #18