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[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How about just NOT supporting companies? Having an European company control what gets shown to you is not much of an improvement over having an American one do it...

There are decentralized search engines like SearXNG

[โ€“] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The problem with that philosophy is that SearXNG is an aggregator, so if everyone moved to them... who would be paying for the engines that it aggregates?

I agree that no one should ever support a company. But rather establish a set of principles that you want the companies you use to follow, and show no loyalty if they break this.

It is actually the philosophy of !PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world.

[โ€“] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

SearXNG is in the picture and it's one of the 3 recommended.

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I just find the title very weird, to me it makes more sense to choose a search engine because it respects your privacy than to "support European companies"

I hadn't read the "Need help choosing?" part of the picture, so still oupsie on my part ๐Ÿ˜… I wish it mentioned that it's decentralized... but considering it's aimed at people using Google, I guess that'd be like trying to convert people from twitter/reddit to mastodon/lemmy by geeking out about decentralization and ActivityPub. No one cares, aside from the people who are already using it ๐Ÿ˜