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We know what the internet would have been without Google and other corporations closing it down because some of us lived it.
It was mostly decentralised niche forums that you had to know the links for, and you’d receive random emails telling you to visit this or that new site. People would also share links around school.
Sure, there was a chance you’d get Chlamydia if you opened the wrong link, but it was exciting and overall the experience was wholesome.
I had to advertise my first website on paper!
Without Google’s grubby paws across most the web, it’d be much more like the initial intent of what the internet was supposed to be, a welcoming place with open and accessible info!
If you don’t want to pay to access a web search service, just use docker and run your own SearXNG instance! This will also allow you to host our own AI model that searches the web through SearXNG. While it may sound like a lot of work, it truly takes an afternoon and some unused RAM on your PC to make happen, then you’re set up!
Unless general-purpose Internet services will be banned.
Have you noticed that laws about providing data on bad-bad criminals yadda-yadda implicitly ban everything not allowing to get that data?
And have you noticed that Russian bans of things that can’t be filtered not only implicitly allow whitelist ban of protocols and services, but are also not very far from what EU and US lawmakers want?
In any situation, if what powerful guys are doing seems to promise good things for you, first consider the possibility that you don’t understand what they are doing.
If you don’t want to pay to access a web search service, just use docker
IMO: My personal problem with Docker is that it creates its own kind of vendor lock-in. Docker does not run on the server operating systems I use. The tendency is towards a Linux monoculture and that is never a good idea. Docker is a symptom, not a solution.
Literally just use Wikipedia more
Lmao there’s whole books about this. One is Life After Google, published 10 (?) years ago and it said blockchain would rule the world :) The subtitle is literally “The Fall Of Big Data And The Rise Of The Blockchain Economy”
They’ve already got it mapped out.
Ah yes, the Volvo S90 and VW Passat, definitely SUVs. Even Google’s screenshots show 40% garbage.
No different for me. I have never used googol garbage so nothing will change.
