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The original google document was so vaguely written that I just assumed the smartasses were pretending they invented SSL certificates. Only now did I get it that it’s for the server to verify the client, not the other way around, and that’s a on a whole new level of absurd. Boy I sure love the idea of having anti-cheat for my browsers. The comments on github are fun to read, at the very least.
That, coupled with Manifest V3 preventing adblockers, is way more reason than one needs to completely forget Google as anything more than the video hosting service for Invidious.
From a github user kescherCode:
I believe that whenever possible, we shall implement this spec into our own websites - but reversed. Whenever the attestation passes, let users not access your site. When it fails or this proposed API is unavailable - let users access your site.
Edit: the mad lad actually started implementing it here.
Haha what a hero! Hats of to him that’s great XD
WebKit also won’t comment because Web Environment Integrity spec is a personal repo instead of a standards group
Just made the switch back to DuckDuckGo
The Google results are atrocious. Fkin 7 “sponsored” results. Two pages almost of fluff
DuckDuckGo is only a meta search engine, they don’t have their own index. They use bing’s indexes and thus have very similar results, which are more often than not
terriblecrapabsolute dogshit, SEO manipulated and completely unhelpful and you need to sift through them.I would know, I use it on the daily and am currently looking for an alternative.
Searx looks most promising but I haven’t really dived into it. Well… Ever.
And DuckDuckGo still has me somewhat won over because html.duckduckgo.com exists and something that I can call peak web design (no joke I truly love it): lite.duckduckgo.com
SearX or even better, SearXNG is probably the best option right now. But it is still just a metasearch engine. Unfortunately, currently there is no real FOSS option with its own index that is usable.
Unless they reversed it, DuckDuckGo censors Russian news now. It’s why I moved to Brave, but that lacks many features so honestly I’m currently without any satisfactory search engine.
i used to like Brave
then i realized they’re a private for profit company that gets revenue from ads and selling data
Brave Browser Under Fire For Alleged Sale Of Copyrighted Data
I would recommend a SearXNG instance
interesting
LibreX works similarly and several instances allow TOR and I2P.
Runs with no JavaScript!nice, I wasn’t aware of that one
Does anyone else have problems with SearXNG/LibreX instances? I can’t get them to show results from the search engines lately.
I dropped google almost entirely later last year when every search of mine returned with a dozen “Untitled” fake pages with spam text and possibly malware due to some wordpress bug. How can the main product of a trillion dollar company fail so badly at such basic search engine manipulation?
