[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 3 points 13 hours ago

Sorry, I'm just exasperated with the "well ackshually" bros. There's nothing wrong with having a .world account, but that's where a lot of the worst redditbros migrated to, so whenever someone shows up with a bad take it's usually someone with an account on that instance.

The instance also has moderators and admins who tolerate queerphobia, racism, and other forms of bigotry, which is unfortunate. A lot of people have left the instance for that reason. I personally refuse to interact with any community on .world because of what I've seen.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 1 points 13 hours ago

Maybe someone with a .world account showed up to "well ackshually" the inhabitants, and they all left. Who can blame them.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 2 points 13 hours ago

Next time before you comment, perhaps you can ask yourself if this distinction has any bearing whatsoever on the fucking point of the post (it doesn't)

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 2 points 13 hours ago

I think I need to take another break from this bullshit

(lemmy dot world account, what a shocker)

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 24 points 16 hours ago

I'd wager that a good percentage of people who support displays like this are also violently antisemitic, and they only support Israel specifically because it's a genocidal apartheid state.

When I go to block zionist blogs on tumblr, they're almost always reblogging posts by Terfs and white nationalists.

Like congratulations I guess, Israel's got the support of Nazis.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 5 points 18 hours ago

You know what's hilarious about this basically non-functional setting? If I toggle the switch off, it provides results based on my IP address's location, but if I toggle it to "UK" it will also provide some results for the UK city that my town is named after, without me ever providing the name of my town lol

DDG is a for-profit brand that's a lot more nefarious than people think. They've even succumbed to AI.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 2 points 18 hours ago

Even the lite and html versions of DDG will provide locationally biased search results. There's no way around this. Best you can do is use a VPN, but then you've still got the problem of reading locationally biased results, just for a different location. It sucks.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 4 points 18 hours ago

Oh believe me, I know. DDG was the first one I tried, and I tested it with every configuration possible. Like many other search engines such as startpage and kagi, you sure can do this in the settings, but it will do absolutely nothing to stop it from using your IP address to net locationally biased results specific to your current location. You may assume it would function like this, but it doesn't.

I even tried their html and lite versions, but although it was less cluttered and much more pleasant to use, it still provided results that were very clearly based on my IP address.

I'm not even sure what those settings do because they appear to have no function. Maybe they change language and currency on some sites for convenience, but again, that's not what I'm talking about in my comment! I'm saying a search engine should not use any locational data whatsoever to adjust results. And if you reply "well, good luck finding one because it doesn't exist," then congratulations, you understand my comment! They don't exist because we've all sacrificed our societal wellbeing for the sake of the smallest convenience.

Even if changing it to another country/region worked (it doesn't), we'd still have the problem of netting biased results based on what country I switch it to. That would be akin to searching while using my VPN, which once again, does not solve the problem of search engines using IP address to provide locationally biased results.

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 4 points 1 day ago

On Android, there's also NewPipe or Tubular

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 8 points 1 day ago

Anything with cats is inherently superior

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 62 points 1 day ago

Search engines should not use locational data including IP address to provide "more relevant" results. Checking for restaurants or weather forecast? You should have to manually add the relevant search terms. Want results in a specific language? You should have to manually apply this filter.

Convenience is not worth the potential harm of locationally biased search results.

For example, where I live is like White Nationalist Central Station. My search results are thus far more likely to net me results with a pro-US/nationalist skew, thus potentially entrenching or normalizing harmful beliefs.

Whenever I've tried bringing this up with Techlords, I get a feeble, "B-but then you couldn't say 'restaurants near me' UnU" and like ... good? It's not like it's hard to type city and state in the search field.

I've never found a search engine that even has this as an option. Even Sear XNG instances net results that are clearly aligned with the location of the instances server.

A Kagi dev even lied to me when I was looking into that as an alternative, saying they don't use location, when it's pretty easy to determine that they do.

I also don't want a "good" algorithm. I also don't want to see big corporate sites prioritized either. If some backwoods nobody has a site that's more relevant, show it to me. I feel like pre-Google search engines were better, but that's another vent for another day.

Now where did I put my false teeth and walker???

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