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Genuinely feeling like we need to organise an anti-Chrome movement in the same way we needed an anti-Internet Explorer movement a decade ago, the difference I guess being that Microsoft eventually joined the movement to kill it, whereas Google are unlikely to

Chrome is almost as dominant now (north of 60%) as Internet Explorer was during the second browser war

Unlike Internet Explorer, which did much of its damage by becoming the market leader and stagnating, the team behind Chrome is taking steps to actively sabotage user safety features and the standards upon which the open web is based

There are at least a couple of attempts to combat this but they're very basic

Anyway tl;dr for the health of the web please stop using Chrome and its derivatives1; use Firefox or Safari, or consider other non-Chrome-based alternatives like iCab. Google do not deserve to be entrusted with this much influence in this post-Don't Be Evil era

  1. Yes, that includes Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, etc.; they all use Chrome's rendering engine and will almost certainly follow Google's lead on technical implementation and engine features. And that's on top of Brave being founded by one of the worst people in tech, and Opera being pretty much as bad these days.

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it is probably a good idea to avoid making your new website sufficiently irritating that a search engine uses it as the first example of its URL rewrite function

A redirect looks like this:

^https://reddit.com/|https://old.reddit.com/

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html#redirect-syntax

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but yeah new year new search engine

I think I've been held back by the fact that Safari doesn't have direct support for anything but "the big five"1, but I am going to be giving their extension with equivalent functionality a go on all my devices, with DuckDuckGo as the fallback

as one of the people who's been paying for her email (in spite of how crazy that seemed) for nearly ten years2 I think it's time to start seriously thinking about paying for my search engine

DuckDuckGo is good, and I respect it a lot, but search in general is rotting. abusive sites with a budget abound and ad-supported search business models seem unable to cope with this paradigm, DDG included

so I'm going to try paying Kagi for a while, and see how it grabs me, we'll see how that goes

  1. the built-in list, at the time of writing, is DuckDuckGo, Google, Yahoo, Bing or Ecosia. All of which are ad-supported. Really wish Apple would bring back pluggability to search, what happened to Sherlock plugins, folks? am I right?

  2. seriously, my Fastmail trial started in May 2013, and I started paying in June. wow. if you want a discount (and to give me a little discount) you can sign up at https://ref.fm/u11157181

 
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