Every app has to have fucking AI now for some reason.

      • neo@lemy.lol
        31·
        9 months ago

        So 50% success rate! I can pull 10 pp slides from that, asking for more resources to do more AI!
        Now, where’s MY COKE!?

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    14·
    9 months ago

    I hate it so much. I want to do one simple search. Instead I get bullshit ad google links that are irrelevant, then MS MS Edge pushes me into Copilot for more garbage, which I have to mouse out of. Stract has become by search engine to get back the nostalgia of when the web wasn’t all shit

    • guycls@lemmy.worldOP
      51·
      9 months ago

      Thanks for the suggestion. What differences have you noticed compared to Google. Do you always find what you’re looking for. Have you tried searching niche stuff like some really old painting or an obscure compiler error etc.

      Weird that it gave me a link to franchise a taco joint when I searched for tacos near me.

      You want tacos? Open a taco shop.

      • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
        4·
        9 months ago

        I wouldn’t consider “tacos near me” a representative search; google specifically optimizes searching for products and especially local food.

        I just searched for “first speedrun” and the first few results are decent but wrong, and the videos, shorts, and related searches after the first 2 entries are complete garbage.

        Being served 70% links to products sucks when searching anything related to a product isn’t fun either.

        • guycls@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          9 months ago

          Fair point. I don’t think it’s ready to become a default search engine as of now.

          • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
            1·
            9 months ago

            Oh, whoops, I wasn’t comparing Stract, I was comparing Google. Those are the reasons I don’t use Google search, I hadn’t tried Stract yet.

            After trying it, it seems cool. Not the best at broad meanings though. “Ram” returns an Indian politician as the “answer”, a site in Japanese for the first link, and then mostly results for Random Access Memory after. No reference to the Dodge Ram (thank Odin), but also no reference to male sheep.

            It also feels very anti-store, which is a nice change, but might ve an artifact of the seemingly anti-SEO stance, with random results from anywhere. Maybe that’s just the European focus?

            It also has issues with getting context from multiple keywords, and doesn’t prioritize say “street car” over pages that happen to contain both “street” and “car”. Excluding keywords with “-” works though, very nice. Quotes can help with phrases to, so " “street car” " finds exactly things called “street car” with the space. Both still miss streetcars though. Misspelling corrections are offered but not assumed, which is very nice.

            Definitely the biggest issue is the seemingly random results. This might be good if you’re searching for an exact string that is only present in a few places, but anything common and it’s a crapshoot. It’s nearly unable to find anything to do with shamrocks, prefering to find business’ named Shamrock.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
    41·
    9 months ago

    AI is how we’ll extract money and knowledge from people and give it to corporations…or so the people behind the corporations think.

  • devilish666@lemmy.world
    35·
    9 months ago

    I suggest you to UBL (Unlock Bootloader) your phone & use AdAway
    Or just use Adguard if you don’t wanna UBL/Root your phone

    • romp_2_door@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 months ago

      ah right, unlock bootloader and break every banking app and break widevine HD playback on streaming apps

      excellent suggestion!

      • devilish666@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Well part that break any banking apps, i can’t deny that
        But there’s fix for that things, i just followed some guy instructions from XDA Forum & all my banking/paying apps work flawlessly
        Of course it’s not easy work at first tbh, but always remember it’s hard but you only do that hard working once

        I remembered 10 years ago have same thinking like you, but after internet has became shitty i must do that. At first yes… everything seems like hard things to do since it’s first time for me do something to my smartphone way beyond it’s recommend, but after that it’s just like walking in the park

      • devilish666@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Depends…
        Adguard has little secret that can strip any protocol request, basically it’s has monitor that can detect any weird behavior apps that has access to internet

        From my experience it’s work flawlessly, but you need a little bit of work to enabled it & of course you need the right filters
        In my device i used AdAway for host blocking (a.k.a non regex filtering) & Adguard for blocking ads that has weird behavior. Both of them works flawlessly & since then my device has no ads/tracking or whatsoever wherever i go

    • guycls@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      9 months ago

      Will adaway remove the Copilot section? I think this a app feature/ native component. Ad blocking might not do much here.

      • devilish666@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        AdAway alone can’t remove that thing unless you used HAGEZI filters & 1Host pro filter
        For apps i just used Adguard bc it can strip any protocol & block ads even if that app has encrypted ads