I fucking TOLD you. What'd I fucking tell you? THIS! I told you exactly FUCKING THIS.
When the predominant values and attitudes of Search as a Culture are all-in on consentless, wasteful, bullshit-proliferating "AI" garbage then "Just Don't Use Google" is NOT A MEANINGFUL SOLUTION.
When I'm trying to have a conversation about a culture of MASSIVE environmental waste and misinformation pervading all of search, at present, then no, telling me about another search engine is not actually helpful.
After the free version of Kagi expired I uninstalled it. But then Google was blocking my IP as punishment. Easy enough to fix but a total time waster for no real benefit, Kagi results were just ok.
