• Fleppensteyn@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    We could create a personal website without having to pay and without giving up personal details. Everything was anonymous.

    Search engines actually found what you were looking for. No censorship or bad suggestions or trying to sell stuff.

    Always finding something new and interesting, not being limited to a few commercial websites.

    People were much friendlier and open to share.

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        1 year ago

        That’s why I just use a metasearch engine (a public searx instance). It’s not perfect, but it usually pulls what I’m looking for from the cached web pages of other search engines and doesn’t let them know I’m searching.