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[–] IverCoder@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

British ability to turn every noun into an insult simply by adding 'absolute'

Will I ever be able to swear like a true brit?

am i lack toast and tolerant

attracted to mother why

If I learn polish will I learn how to squat like a slav?

Wow

[–] Slartibartfast@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

What an absolute squat.

[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Can my girlfriend be pregnant if I kissed her?

What to do with my stacked up toilet papers?

what counts as fat

Can birds fly backwards?

Ha ha ha ha!!!

[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unless you automate this to run a search at random intervals, wouldn’t google see a blast of searches and just ignore it as noise? I imagine they employ AI already to filter out nonsensical activity or bot activity.

Really, just stop using google. I migrated from google many years ago. It’s been great. The frustrating part is when they buy up good products and run them into the ground (Nest, Fitbit). Seriously fuck google.

[–] Essential7220@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not use DuckDuckGo or Brave search engine?

[–] Librerian@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I don't Qwant to

[–] reverb@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

or you could just not use google lol

[–] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I use SearXNG. They search Google anonymously. I also like the layout better. Less bullshit. Straight to the content.

There used to be reasons to use Google over DuckDuckGo. But the latter's result quality has gone up while the former's has been enshittified. Still, something about old habits and how they die.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Simply head over to Google and click your profile in the top right (log in if needed)

Do privacy motivated people even have a google account?

[–] animist@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have it bc I still need to download apps via Play Store on Graphene. Don't use it for anything else tho

[–] wxboss@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can download theAurora Store and download Google Play apps without an account.

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Aurora Store currently has problems (probably caused by google). Anonymous login sometimes fails or searches lead to a "sorry, you're rate limited" error.

[–] animist@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Going to do that this weekend

[–] mrmanager -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or you can pay 10 bucks for Kagi and enjoy privacy.

[–] Makussu@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ADHDefy@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a premium, subscription-based search engine. Basically, you just pay them monthly instead of getting ads.

[–] Makussu@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Lol. Not even open source. Just use a public Searxng instance

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