you don’t have to tell me information about why Rui’s drive is gone, I just googled it because I forgot their name (I thought it was Anadius’ drive at first)

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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      Which is probably why the lemmy UI started getting randomly overwhelmed from AI scraping bots :S

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        We should invent something that rotates community IDs but only non-bots see the real IDs, flood lemmy instanced with anti-AI posts and dont federate those posts.

        Like, lemmy.ml/c/linux is suddenly garbage, and actually another community.

        But I guess that would create massive drawbacks in UX, requiring javascript, logins or even captchas and breaking links

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          It’s almost impossible to determine bots nowadays. They’re better at solving captchas than humans.

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    It’s just cool to see Lemmy in any search result. It kind of reinforces that what we are doing here matters. Downside is that if an instance goes down, only a potential archive is there.

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      be aware that google results are personalized for you, so that really doesn’t say much about what “average user” sees…

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        Well this is duck duck go, I don’t think that is personalized?

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          Oh, I missed that. I am not sure whether it behaves similarly to Google in this.

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            DDG makes it quite the statement that they don’t personalise your search in any way, to the point where you can pick which country’s tailored results you want from a dropdown.

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      Can confirm same result when searching through searx instances, result provided by google.

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    Google search is complete shite nowadays. We’re just lucky nobody is advertising for those keywords.

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      The research is from Duck Go Go as most people have already said but I appreciate your comment offending Google. More people should do this nowadays!

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        eh, ddg is just bing. Only marginally better ideologically, and probably worse practically.

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          fr!! im always confused when people advertise ddg as ‘the best privacy browser’ when it is well-known their results are bing’s, also the huge marketing campaign they did about how they’re ‘the most private and respect your privacy’ just weirded me out?? like it was a bit suspicious idk. oh yeah and that thing where the mobile ddg browser allowed microsoft trackers on microsoft ads because of their deal with bing (hey that rhymed!!)

          ++ half the time when i searched for anything moderately obscure there would be 0 results, or even if i didnt search for stuff like that i’d get results completely unrelated to my query.