so another GUI for yt-dlp?

depends on what you mean by “fixing”, I guess. I just resorted to not using Google at all, and use uBlacklist to filter out garbage websites from my search results.

can you set a custom URL, which is required to do what the article is talking about, or do you just pick from the predefined list of search engines?

edit: just checked and nope, you can only pick from Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia.

I prefer “Habsburg AI”.

Custom search engines are limited to PC browsers only. Unfortunately, the mobile versions of these browsers will not let you set up a custom search, so you’re stuck tapping on the Web view in all your mobile search queries.

someone hasn’t heard of Firefox on Android.

Their real power is their ability to understand language and context.

…they do exactly none of that.

there’s still a way back! https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-14/deactivating-facebook-for-just-a-few-weeks-reduces-belief-in-fake-news.html

I hope they’ll get investigated for boomer radicalization next.

the absolute state of capitalisms-driven internet in the year 2024: you have to choose a specific option on an internet search engine website in order to search the internet.

Kagi started as an AI company. and they do a bunch of weird things otherwise, which made me stop giving them money.

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

or does google actually have some of its own

every phone running Google’s version of Android with location enabled.

not sure how well the first two are going to work together, given that the first one clicks through the banners to deny as many cookies as possible, while the second one blocks said banners from loading.

they’ve added an LLM chatbot recently, so I’m sure the energy required to run the queries will offset all the trees they’ve planted so far in about 4 days.

they’re selling the 4 with degoogled OS in the US, so perhaps they’ll do the same with the 5 at some point.