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1WorldHope

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10. Well I've been looking for ways to ditch Google for a long time.

Reply to Make7 (Reply #8)

Tue May 19, 2026, 05:38 PM

17 hrs ago

So if I just downloaded Vivaldi what do I do with my Google Chrome just will stuff copy into Vivaldi? I would do this in a heartbeat but I need more guidance.

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Google Search as you know it is over [View all] highplainsdem 19 hrs ago OP

Everything you said, plus ai heats up our planet and uses up our water questionseverything 19 hrs ago #1

Crap... Bayard 19 hrs ago #2

I've been using Startpage for a couple years. Make7 18 hrs ago #8

Well I've been looking for ways to ditch Google for a long time. 1WorldHope 17 hrs ago #10

Google, as we knew it, was over and changed quite a while ago, before AI. RockRaven 19 hrs ago #3

Same here. It's been over for me for years now mdbl 19 hrs ago #4

Brave and DuckDuckGo are much more secure than Google. summer_in_TX 18 hrs ago #5

Will Bunch: Soon there'll be no new information to train AI on anything that happened after 2026 highplainsdem 18 hrs ago #6

The usual acronym ETTD should be edited slightlv 18 hrs ago #7

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 17 hrs ago #9

Fuck all AI until/unless that shit is HEAVILY regulated...something that sure as hell isn't happening under fascism. Karasu 15 hrs ago #11

There are many things a Google search will not find. BidenRocks 13 hrs ago #12

Google anything ... any search term ... then type "-AI" after the term FakeNoose 12 hrs ago #13

I do that (when I remember) but you still get AI content too. BlueSpot 11 hrs ago #14

+1 dalton99a 9 hrs ago #16

So basically the era of links is over Diraven 10 hrs ago #15

It was fun while it lasted. hunter 9 hrs ago #17

Cory Doctrow made a word for this:"enshitification". nt Shipwack 6 hrs ago #18