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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

ecosia(uses bing)

Ecosia is a fucking scam. They claim that "every search plants a tree", except the monetary contribution towards their "tree-planting" stuff comes from clicking ads -- therefore if you are a knowledgeable user who purposefully skips over ads (or just use an ad-blocker) then Ecosia makes exactly $0 off of your traffic.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

F-droid relesae is 4 years old, you can get August 2022 releases on github

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

ensuring music content is available and approved for YouTube Music’s 80 million subscribers worldwide

this could really mean anything from running the entire service to merely scraping lyrics. and since it's a group of 49 people, I wanna say it's probably something along the lines of the latter. but yeah, your point in general stands.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I want to, but I can't shake off the feeling that Google does have a point here: it's like requiring Amazon to bargain with DHL's drivers. It's kind of not their issue: they pay DHL for their services and DHL commissions their employees to do particular tasks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do because I pay next to nothing for a family membership, I can access YouTube covers and music normally unaccessible in my region (yeah, that happens!) and it works with Android Auto which my father needs (otherwise I would simply use Revanced). Also could never learn Spotify, it's so counter-intuitive to me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried switching to DDG and then Qwant and sadly they both suck for some searches. For example neither could successfully find anything more specific than the home page on my country's government websites. Perhaps Bing, but, again, it's Microsoft?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

akshuallllyyyyyyyy, monetary value of anything is derivative to someone else's willingness to purchase the item

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yap, I like the analogy

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