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Folks complaining about #google AI overviews...

Why the frick are you still using google search in 2025?

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Yes, I literally turned Jackie Chan into WTF for this. You're not welcome. Apologies to Jackie.

#StartPage#DDG#Clew

Tip #736

Choose the Speed Dial group you want to open the Start Page with.

We all have our preferred workflows and it’s great when the tools you use are able to adapt to that workflow. That’s why in Vivaldi you can choose what gets shown to you when you open the Start Page. Is it always the Speed Dial with your most important bookmarks or is it the one you viewed most recently?

To choose the view the Start Page is opened with:

  1. Go to Settings > Start Page > Reopen Speed Dial with.
  2. Select between:
    • Last Selected Group,
    • First Group (reorder groups using drag and drop on the navigation bar).

#dashboard #speedDial #startPage #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser

https://vivaldi.com/blog/tips/tip-736/

I paid for an annual #StartMail (by #Startpage) subscription back in January, but the experience so far has been very subpar… It’s missing both basic (e.g. displaying emails in conversation/thread format) and advanced (e.g. calendar) features 🙃

I’m happy that I can use “Add to Home Screen” instead of downloading another app, but the webmail UX is very clunky and the MFA UX is garbage (every time I open it, I have to open Bitwarden, search, then copy/paste the code). support.startmail.com/hc/en-us

Startpage is a search engine that has been promoted as a European alternative to Google Search.

This is a misleading statement.

CLARIFICATION

Headquartered in the Netherlands.

Owned by System1: mastodon.online/@blueghost/111

Revenue is consolidated with System1's financial statements.

System1 supports employee salaries, technology investments, and marketing initiatives.

Source: support.startpage.com/hc/artic

Website: startpage.com

Does anyone know of a search engine that doesn't have that much AI slop? I've been using DDG, but results have been getting bad of late. Finding a website I recognize is hard. I stopped using startpage under concern that it was using google's increased water from AI. But yeah.

At the same time, something with too obscure of answers might not work for my job. So I dunno.

久しぶりに #DuckDuckGo 使ってたけど、Safe Search を Strict に設定しても、検索結果にいかがわしい広告に溢れたサイトとかが結構出てきてしまうな…
#Ecosia とか #StartPage とかは #Google をソースに検索結果作ってる事もあってか、特に日本語の検索結果でもそういう部分はそれなりに望ましい結果になっている印象。
#DuckDuckGo はもともとその昔は日本語検索にも若干難があった(結果に出てくる文字が異様に少ないみたいな表示問題)時もあったし、気長に改善待つしかないんだろうけど、こういう感じだととりあえずデフォルト検索エンジンは #Ecosia に戻すか…

Tip #692

Bring back the Home button when moving the Address Bar to the bottom in Vivaldi on Android.

When you move the Address and Tab Bars to the bottom edge of the screen, the Navigation Bar, together with some useful buttons, will be hidden. For example, the one taking you back to the Start Page. Luckily, there’s a setting in Vivaldi on Android that you can toggle to bring it back.

To add a Home button to the Address Bar:

  1. Go to Settings > Appearance & Theme.
  2. Enable “Show Start Page Icon in Address Bar”.

If you want to open a website instead of the Start Page when tapping on the Home button (and New Tab button), go to Settings > General > Homepage to set the web page link.

#addressBar #android #customization #startPage #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser

https://vivaldi.com/blog/tips/tip-692/

Tip #689

Hide seldom used buttons on Vivaldi’s Start Page on your mobile for a cleaner look.

While customizing the appearance of the Start Page is fun, you probably don’t do it very often. The same goes for manually adding new Speed Dial bookmarks. If that’s the case, feel free to hide one or both of the buttons in Vivaldi on Android and iOS and use alternative routes on occasions you do need to access these features.

To hide the buttons from the Start Page:

  1. Tap on the “Customize” button on the Start Page.
    Alternatively, go to Settings > Start Page.
  2. Toggle off “Customize Start Page Button” and/or “Show Add Button”.

When these buttons have been hidden, tap on the 3 dot menu in the top right corner of the Start Page and select “Customize Start Page” to access customization settings. To add new Speed Dial bookmarks, select the right Speed Dial folder when adding an open web page as a bookmark or add one manually in the Bookmarks Panel.

#android #customization #iOS #speedDial #startPage #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser

https://vivaldi.com/blog/tips/tip-689/

I have been using #vivaldi for about a week now and I enjoy it. However the default search engine is awful. #startpage is garbage. I get their premise and wish them luck, but when I search for blue sky - the first link should be bluesky. Instead I got 5 links that have nothing to do with bluesky.