• I use searx and DNS level adblocking. Online ads are almost a completely foreign concept for me as 99.9% of the time they just never even load.

    • queermunist she/her
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      111 year ago

      I remember when Google used to be perfectly functional as long as you knew the right search tools. Now it thinks it knows what I’m searching for better than I do, and that almost always means pointing me towards something someone paid for lol

      • @Alkider@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        Is advanced searching any better? I wouldn’t know now because searx but when I used it before it helped to keep the results focused.

        • queermunist she/her
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          41 year ago

          It’s better, but sometimes google will decide you didn’t really mean to type the string inside the quotation marks. Advanced search tools used to be rock solid!

      • @I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml
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        21 year ago

        God help you if whatever you’re searching for has key words in any way related to a big news story. Even trying to restrict the date doesn’t seem to help.