This is a bad diagram
Yeah.
The columns are squished together so the titles are basically one word and the data creates a ton of empty space. The colors should be lighter shades. White on yellow is just annoying. The row separators don’t extend to the row header, so it is easy to get lost when trying to compare the actual data.
My eyes just get confused and nope out.
Also the actual diagram is bad.
As in?
As in the actual data is bad, inaccurate, opinionated and doesn’t explain anything. Half of the chart is just “Cloudflare lol”, like at least explain why.
It’s a chart that looks useful at first glance, but the more you look at it the less you learn.
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Brave Search fully using their own index since April 27, 2023. But they refuse to identify their crawler and rely on googlebot if sites want to be excluded. Also their search API monetization of possible copyrighted content while understandable is a bit doubious due to their public stance on transparency.
StartPage also blocks VPN usage.
DuckDuckGo by their own admission now re-rank “trusted” sites to the top when it comes to what they clasify as"misinformation" so calling their “censorship” mild is huge understatement.
If I wanted to search for unverified info or misinfo, I could, but almost always I am lookkng for factual and sourced information. Please don’t force me to do otherwise.
It’s more about someone else making the decision on what is “trustworthy” for you
StartPage also blocks VPN usage.
Only accidental I think. They have the option of reporting that you’re behind a VPN proxy when it happens.
Didn’t have an issue since a year. Think they changed sth (airvpn)
Using mullvad I have to always come back to a specific country that I used a lot couple months ago
That sounds funny, why do you think that happens?
dunno, but already changed to another search eng on mobile
I still get it very occasionally with Proton VPN.
For me it was way worse a year ago. I would get blocked all the time, now it rarely ever happens.
I do agree, it used to be a lot worse. I switched away from StartPage for a while because it was so frequent.
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They don’t pretent to be googlebot, they use their own crawler they just don’t share the name they use for it, so sites can’t exclude it with robots.txt. They just scrape the same sites that googlebot does, so if the site is excluded by googlebot they also skip it.
StartPage also blocks VPN usage.
Ancedotal but Startpage works perfectly fine with VPN for me. Certainly better than Google, which works but requires a lot of annoying captchas.
I used Startpage for a long time, and I’m perpetually connected to VPN on both my PC and my phone (different nodes at different times)
Never had a problem with my VPN
Interesting that you’re doing a search engine comparison, and not add google into that comparison. Also, there are no sources at all, so we can’t verify any of it, and I know that some of that data is incorrect. Sources would help us (the end user) determine whether our data is incorrect or yours is incorrect due to poor sources. Leaving out the sources, means this chart is actually rather pointless, because it can’t be verified (as correct or incorrect).
E: also, ignoring cloudflare with this statement and zero explanation, removes author credibility. Either explain exactly why “cloudflare so who cares lol” or don’t include that section at all.
This chart reminds me of this, which was actually quoted in a presentation as an actual quote…
The chart source is from here: https://digdeeper.club/articles/search.xhtml
Cloudflare makes you activate cookies and JavaScript, which serves to deanonymize you.
I couldn’t quite believe the Cloudflare thing, so I loaded up a new Firefox profile, disabled all cookies, and disabled JavaScript and accessed one of my websites that sits behind cloudflare and… It worked just fine.
Do you have more info on that? Is it only in certain cases?
I believe it’s only when they have anti-ddos enabled or CF thinks you’re a bot, it makes you resolve a captcha (sometimes), and that requires cookies and JS.
I get denied enough it is noticeable when I’m on a VPN with Mull. Sometimes it let’s me do a captcha, sometimes its just a straight up block. Usually dropping my VPN fixes.
It was made by an edgelord for edgelords.
CuckCuckGo belongs in the trash instead.
shouldn’t that category be “SearXNG” instead of “SearX”? – SearX went into maintenance mode a year ago and then archived their code last week – searx.space isn’t even bothering to list SearX instances anymore
Kinda bummed about that because some of the instances I liked were SearX, but I guess it’s time to move on.
How about Kagi?
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I mean it’s kinda pointless to compare Google’s privacy features since they have none
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They’re the worst in terms of being the panopticum, but I don’t understand how easy it is to buy data from them.
I’m not impressed with Kagi. I was lied to by someone at Kagi when I asked a question about their using geo-location data.
(Well, technically not lied to, but it was clear they were being deliberately evasive and deceptive, which didn’t impress me much, since it’s a paid service I was considering.)
Obviously, my take may be biased, so I’ve added screenshots from the exchange I had with Kagi, but I’ve blotted out all names for privacy. Even though this left a bad taste in my mouth, I hope I’m not depicting this unfairly, so now you can decide for yourself.
Edit: If you’re tempted to respond in bad faith, go annoy someone else. I’m not taking the bait, I’ll just block your ass.
Edit Part 2: Why do all my comments attract the most insufferable neckbeards?
A. It’s clear why I found it deceptive since he was being a pedant about what constitutes search results (if a widget is summoned by a search term – which didn’t request it btw – then that widget is part of the results. It’s batshit looney to think otherwise)
B. But I literally posted screenshots for full disclosure and for the sake of honesty – and I’m still getting losers posting cringe in response. Fucking suburbanite straight white male energy stfu
C. Get blocked, fuckwits. If I wanted your opinion, I’d ask.
Which part of that replay was deceptive?
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Legitimately, what part of that was deceptive? They outright stated that those specialized widgets you can’t disable. Your post here is far more misleading in comparison.
Why do all my comments attract the most insufferable neckbeards?
A. It’s clear why I found it deceptive since he was being a pedant about what constitutes search results (if a widget is summoned by a search term – which didn’t request it btw – then that widget is part of the results. It’s batshit looney to think otherwise)
B. But I literally posted screenshots for full disclosure and for the sake of honesty – and I’m still getting losers posting cringe in response. Fucking suburbanite straight white male energy stfu
C. Get blocked, fuckwit. If I wanted your opinion, I’d ask.
the most insufferable neckbeards
https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/b7ad3f91-d781-4085-9757-873ed7e6f4ee.jpeg
he was being a pedant about what constitutes search results
You mean they were being precisely accurate
Fucking suburbanite straight white male energy stfu
I’m not male
If I wanted your opinion, I’d ask
You posted to a public forum, but man you’ve really got an attitude about any contest to what you’ve said.
I just love what has become of this thread:
- Think it’s a nice post
- Look for Google/Kagi, but they’re missing
- People ask for sources, realize OP has chart from VERY dodgy conspiracy website
- People start accusing Kagi Support of lying to their face, Screenshota of convo attached
- Other users don’t think its a lie, rather a misunderstanding
- Insults start
- ?
Nice summary
Is cloudflare bad?
bad in the sense that its 1 (american) company that controls a hellala lot of the internet
You? Me?
Are the Ecosia results up to date? They used to be great, but awhile ago they changed something and it’s been hot garbage since. I still use them because trees, but I usually search with Ecosia, don’t see what I want, and then have to use another search engine.
Why is Brave Search considered as heavily censored?
Because it doesn’t show the conspiracy theory enhancing the authors conspiracy anti-covid/anti-moon landing opinion :
meaning you will never find the truth about the moon landing or COVID vaccines there even if the query asks for exactly that. What you will find - though - is a bunch of irrelevant “fact check” or “science loving” sites, or ones shitting on “conspiracy theorists”.
Ahhh that’s reasonable. Thank you for the info!
Leaving out all other conspiracy theories, since I may agree with some of them, the claim that the moon landing was staged strikes me as mindblowing over everything else. You just need to look at the Moon wath a telescope to disprove it, no need to believe to any scientist.
Today I learned WebCrawler still exists.
First search engine I ever used in the 90s
Nifty. Did you make this op?
Nope, I got it from here: https://digdeeper.club/articles/search.xhtml
after looking around on that site, i deeply mistrust the original author about probably everything. using the search term “christchurch shooting was faked” and arguing that the search results attack conspiracy theories, which means that there is censoring going on - that does not fit my definition of sanity.
e: ah, and the moon landing was fake and covid shots are evil. dudes, this guy is nuts, dont even take the time of the day from him.
Wtf. Didn’t even have to go too far. Here in the brave section
meaning you will never find the truth about the moon landing or COVID vaccines there even if the query asks for exactly that. What you will find - though - is a bunch of irrelevant “fact check” or “science loving” sites, or ones shitting on “conspiracy theorists”.
WTF is wrong with this person.
This “article” is about spreading search engine for people doing “their own research” and making the US look stupid on TV or something.
I am for no “censorship”, however sometimes it is needed, because as for the example of the vaccines or moonlanding, people may je mislead, then search s* online and get a trash conspiracy article which enhances that stupid opinion. In this case there needs to be a way to spread good information.
I heard Naomi Klein say that conspiracy theories are the socialism of fools.
Do you have this in ods, csv or at least xlsx?
God, this is what I love about Lemmy: Someome posts a chart and immediately the question for raw data arises. And the order: First .ods, the free spreasheet format, then .csv with the mindset of “Fine, I’ll import the raw csv myself”, and as anlast resort the hated .xlsx proprietary format. Never change, and use .od_
There is something that is irrefutable that sadly google has the best algorithm and most crawled information. So it has by far the best results using it correctly with parameters. Sometimes I fall to use it but i take my precautions like in a separate container using Firefox Multi account containers and some other stuff
It’s refutable, and also you can use Google’s results through a different search engine, like SearXNG
Google used to be the ultimate engine 15 years ago. Now it’s the same 5 sites and 10 ads over and over.
Source? How is possible that Startpage is listed as Censorship: Extreme?
Startpage is Google but proxied. And Google has extreme censorship.
