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Y'all do know Kagi is literally using AI to rewrite the news, right? Not only the headline, the entire body too. https://news.kagi.com/world/latest
If you think Kagi of all places is gonna be safe from AI, think again. They are all in on the AI hype train. They might not be selling your data (yet), but best believe you're paying them to train their AI.
I still sometimes need to use Googleβs search engine, but the new default βAI Modeβ is bullshit, so I use Violentmonkey and this userscript to force it to use the original default, βWebβ: https://github.com/ZenithO-o/Fix-Google-Web-Search
Shit like this is completely unusable for laymen.
It isn't.
All of us were laymen at one point.
I still am, for one.
What I see big apps do is treat users (both power, regular and new ones) as idiots, ruining the experience for everyone. Users should be treated reasonavly as reasonable people. This means giving them the options and opportunity to become power users, as opposed to saying "yeah, that'll never fly with them" and then you're the one to shoot all of them down preemptively.
Violentmonkey is simple enough to install as an add-on, and clicking "Get a Script" requires no coding background.
So yeah. Impossible for utter idiots.
Which users are not.
They're reasonable people like you and me, and giving them the opportunity to know about Violentmonkey and what it does should be more enough for them to use.
brave search is ok too
