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theverge.com/news/667517/micro

Microsoft will shut down access to its Bing Search APIs for most third-party developers on August 11th, decommissioning all existing instances. However, some major users like DuckDuckGo will continue to have access after the cutoff, according to Wired.

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The Verge · Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AIBy Tom Warren

I’m slowly backing out of US supplied software. I’ve changed my browser to #Vivaldi (though I’m keeping #DuckDuckGo as my Search provider for now). I’m downloading my photo albums from #Google for local backup and thinking about alternative phone backup strategies. I’ve been playing with TeraBox but something feels off with it. Anyone had good experiences with another un-American cloud photo backup service?

💡 Très intéressante vidéo de @lecrivainsf sur les moteurs de recherche alternatifs à #Google. Bien qu'aucun ne soit parfait, ils existent et les utiliser à la place de Google contribue à effriter au gré du temps l'hégémonie du géant américain. Gwên revient d'abord sur ce que sont les moteurs indépendants, les méta-moteurs et les moteurs hybrides. Puis elle décrit et donne son ressenti sur #Qwant, #DuckDuckGo, #StartPage, #SearX / #SearXNG, #YaCy, #Brave et #Mojeek. #GAFAM
peertube.iriseden.eu/w/cpTW1kH

Manchmal fühlt sich der Kampf für die (eigene) #informationelleSelbstbestimmung - den #Datenschutz - aussichtslos an,
ich möchte daher daran erinnern, dass auch kleine Schritte etwas bewirken können:
* Nutzt einen Ad- und Tracking-Blocker (#uBlockOrigin)
* Ändert die Standardsuchmaschine(auch wenn ihr diese nicht zu 100% nutzt) (#DuckDuckGo #Ecosia #Qwant #SwissCows)
* Wechselt den #Browser(#FireFox #Brave #LibreWolf)
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@kagihq That's quite different from #Google and #Duckduckgo, which won't show our Peertube videos at all (the same videos are posted to both Youtube and Peertube) even if I specifically add "peertube" to my search string.

Google actually seems to prioritize Facebook videos, which is kind of weird.

With Duckduckgo I can't even find our Peertube page, using the regular search, so that has actually gotten a lot worse (it used to come high up on the list when searching for 'xx video'.