Unpopular opinion : Bing is a better search engine than Google when it comes to piracy
Google is way to compliant to DMCA request resulting in bad result. Bing doesnt seems to care and will happily link to live and replay of sport event (the main reason I use it personnaly) even as a first result.
PS : If you're french dont forget to change your DNS or any quality site will not load
So far the only comments have been 'everyone knows this already', but I did not, so thank you for posting it
They're part of today's lucky 10000.
After seeing this comic for the first time years ago I always try to keep it in mind when someone tells me they are just learning about something. We all learn similar things for the first time only at different parts of our lives and being able to be a part of helping someone learn something new is a great feeling.
I got to show my niece and nephew the diet coke and mentos thing. It has become a core memory for the 3 of us and was one of my top 10 funnest days of my life. Sharing knowledge is fun.
Just because something is old knowledge doesn't mean it's common knowledge!
People get so weird about that. Yeah I knew, but before I knew, I didn't.
because they are focused on themselves. They don't want to see on a public forum an information they already know, not thinking that this information may be useful to others. It's the Me Me Me attitude.
Knowing about something before others (and bragging about it) gives people a feeling of self-satisfaction.
didnt know this either
Same here, this is first time I know...
Right! I didn't know about it. It makes me wonder about which other things I don't know because people don't share it thinking it's common knowledge.
Or you can use duckduckgo that uses bings search index while protecting your privacy
I've been using DDG exclusively for years now and every now and then I feel it doesn't give me what I seek and I try Google and it doesn't find shit either.
People always say that Google results are still superior but I believe that's only the case as long as you're in the bubble they create based on your profile and you're looking for your interests and like-minded opinions.
I think people say Google results are superior due to inertia. Google was really good at some point, many years ago. These days it's laughably bad.
I found that Google is head and shoulders above DDG when it comes for my work searches. Technical stuff - like code errors, Oracle syntax, technical references, etc. I used DDG for a couple of months and had to switch back to Google because I literally wasn't finding the results that I knew existed.
And it’s far less cluttered. I use it because it gives me the same or better results than Google and it’s UI is waaay cleaner and reflects my dark style preference without having to reload it even once.
DuckDuckGo has been harming people's privacy for years now. Ironically in part because it allows Microsoft's ad network through due to their partnership. Luckily there are many other alternatives out there.
Pro tip: if you do insist on using Google scroll to the bottom until you see a notice like the one below.
You can then click on the complaint to see the URLs that were removed.
They’ve wisened up a bit and now require a (throwaway) email to access the links, but chances are that if you’re looking for something more obscure, the link you seek is still there.
Pretty sure it's intentional.
Have never tough about it, thanks !
Google is just better at censorship.
I use searx because it aggregates over multiple search engines. You can find searx nodes here: https://searx.space/
That's not an unpopular opinion. It's a known fact for years.
Neutral opinion: any opinion can be popular or unpopular if posed to the right (or wrong) audience
Clearly, I shouln't have posted this as an "Unpopular opinion" but rather as a PSA or general advice, my bad. Just something i thought as something people should know. Also I'm sure there is better search engine out there so please share away !
Unpopular opinion: chocolate tastes good
Woah, friend. This is unpopular opinion, not crazy opinion. You need to calibrate or leave. Friend.
Google nowadays works if you wanna search something from the Wikipedia or like the same 20 websites. For anything else, good luck going through all the SEO autogenerated garbage.
SearX go brrr There's even a tab for ′files′ which is all just torrents
There an app for android or are the tabs for PC?
Wouldn't the apps you use track anyway? For example would it be pointless to use searX on an app like chrome, firefox or duck?
I believe the idea is that searx strips out tracking/data from the queries sent and recieved from engines.
There's some info here
As for the browser tracking you, yes. It doesn't matter what search engine you use on a browser like Chrome it can still track you.
I can highly recommend Brave search, they have their own index and don't "comply" with the DMCA because it's not actually required for a search engine but sadly also not forbidden. I love it every time piratebay.org shows up when it obviously should and not some scummy fake sites!
I second the recommendation. I know a lot of people don't like the browser (although I find that a lot of that dislike comes somewhat misleading rumors or stories) but the search engine really doesn't have anything to do with the browser except that it's by the same company. I often switch between it and Duck Duck Go, and I don't use Brave browser.
Just my 2c on the browser, I tend to prefer setups that I do or make as part of a guide so that I feel more in control and more aware of what's running on my PC, so I much prefer taking the time to install LibreWolf and then add a dozen extensions to it.
However, Brave is still a browser I recommend to the casual who wants more privacy for how convenient it is. And I do daily drive it on iOS too for the built in adblocking, which (to my knowledge) can't be done on the iOS build of Firefox.
Same, I am a life long Firefox user and switch between the two, in most cases the results can keep up with DDG or beat it but sometimes (especially for regional stuff) it dose struggle and DDG dose a better job, that's usually not piracy related tho.
Same, I am a life long Firefox user and switch between the two, in most cases the results can keep up with DDG or beat it but sometimes (especially for regional stuff) it dose struggle and DDG dose a better job, that's usually not piracy related tho.
Why would you use Bing over DDG? Honest question
DDG also partly buys results from Bing, so more good results with none privacy abuse. I only switch back to google when searching for images, DDG sucks at finding images.
Bing Chat is great, and at work we use M365, so I can easily search for work content through Bing too.
Bing Rewards are also a nice bonus.
Why talk to Bing Chat when Greg from down the hall could use a chat instead. he is lonely
I've been using Bing chat allot. I got the extension that lets me use it on Firefox. It's insanely useful, and I feel like it's getting better with time as it learns. I still use DuckDuckGo for search though, although I've been using search less and less as Bing chat gets better.
So duckduckgo which is primarily bing would be best for piracy privacy?
Been using the Duckduckgo app for awhile now. Works fantastic, F google
Duckduckgo largely based it's classic results on Bing.
So I guess this is an agree to OP?
I've been using duckduckgo for many years. So I wouldn't know how it compares to Google results.
You can compare how it does by using bangs using google in ddg:
where (at least piracy forums) is this an unpopular opinion?
Its better at serving unbias results as well.
Don't they still provide that link at the bottom of the first page with a list of all the DMCA'd content in one convenient link (so you can be sure to avoid it)?
No, now they just say "some content has been removed" but don't say what, who and why
I don’t believe they do that anymore, but I could be wrong.
Ecosia feels the best to me
Google is getting passed by in many ways. Chrome feels like a second rate browser now.
It has always being, the sad thing is how Firefox is following along
Firefox consumes a ton of power for me, for some reason (Apple M1 Pro).
I've found yandex to work even better. But yeah bing is way better than Google.
Isn't Yandex Russian?
Yep.
Searx is the best because its uses multiple search engines at the same time
It's better for porn as well... A friend told me
It is vastly superior for porn and the "+" for "must include" and "-" for "must not include" work far more often than Google's modifiers. Not 100% but close enough.
It's a great search engine for most things not work safe, Google will always be there for my technical questions but Bing is the GOAT for the devil on my shoulder.
Idk man. Bing Dorking isn't as good as Google's. They have similar operators but Google usually has better results.
How does Bing compare to duckduckgo?
Duckduckgo.com uses Bing as its back-end. Honestly I prefer both to Google anymore.
Oh, I didn't realize that! TIL.
Apparently porn as well.
I'm no Microsoft fan boy, but I think Bing is better than Google at most things. The only thing I use google for now a days is a spell checker.
bing is great with results if you know the right keywords to use!
I use duckduckgo atm which I think gets some of its results from bing. I only ever go to Google to see the quick summaries without clicking to any page when you type "what's the weather" or "10 GBP to USD" and stuff like that
Nice to see someone talking about this. I actually have been using bing for the last year because of this exact reason. Also when using a VPN, bing never gives me a captcha.
Can't say that's really an unpopular opinion. Bing had it's advantage over Google, that's for sure.
Thanks, I used to use Bing as my default search engine for a while and it sucked for anything if you needed more than the 1st page of results
I don’t think this is unpopular. I just think people use Google because of the UI/UX and it being a better search engine for other things.
I use google because microsoft keeps trying to shove bing down my throat. I'd rather use a worse search engine than let them win.
I feel the same... I will make exactly zero difference, but it's my way of fighting back against shitty business practices
People use google bc they don't even know what they're doing when using a computer/phone
I agree that google is the best search engine for most things, I use it a lot, but for speficic thing like piracy (and porn) I found Bing to be superior and wanted to share this. Afterall IMO one of the principle of piracy is to avoid relying on a single service, and find the best suited thing for your needs.
I think they care about DMCAs, for example my Lemmy instance for some reason is completely blocked on bing on behalf of some unspecified copyright troll
It's just most copyright trolls only care about Google and won't even bother sending the DMCA to bing
Alternatives to Google, to YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, alternatives to Chromium/Chrome browsers - these are important things to be aware of.
SearXNG has search handled for me - scraping Bing and Google amongst others (and often I see Google results are low down on my list).
I just only know I have been using duckduckgo for years and for me is enough
I pretty much exclusively use Google to search for reddit posts on niche stuff. I stick with google because DDG or any alternatives I tried don't have the Date of the searched reddit posts on the results.
I'd use Bing but all the links are purple and I can't fix it after googling fixes x.x
perplexity.ai works well for reddit searches
Ah yes, Lemmy mirrors Reddit well. It even replicates those times when it looks like your comment didn't go through so you hit submit a couple more times and your comment comes through 3 times.
I think its inferior because there are barely any search operators... Google has alot...
Think bing would be a good place to find a rip of Kevin Smith's movie "Red State"? I can't seem to find it anywhere with Google searches or with the pirate bay.
I use Startpage, it gave me the same result as Bing.
I use Brave and occasionally Crowdview for questions... any reason why I should find a Searx instance instead?
Yandex is even better.
now this one is even more controversial
I always search for torrent in Yandex, sometimes in btdig if this search is too criminal