Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by IIsi50MHz on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:18PM
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For me, it's: s/fall back to Google/fall back to StartPage
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What I mean is: StartPage.com is Google results with better filters and without the "bubble" that Google likes to put you in. Although…
I did have to reluctantly block StartPages ads on some puters,though, after they resorted to "make the topmost ads appear right where the topmost results I was alread reading and/or about to click already were". I'd have blocked only the topmost ads, but I timed-out while trying to conjure a better CSS selector. I was mildly annoyed with their "ads look almost the same as results" in recent years, but this latest move may eventually convince me to block StartPage's ads everywhere.
(-:
What I mean is: StartPage.com is Google results with better filters and without the "bubble" that Google likes to put you in. Although…
I did have to reluctantly block StartPages ads on some puters,though, after they resorted to "make the topmost ads appear right where the topmost results I was alread reading and/or about to click already were". I'd have blocked only the topmost ads, but I timed-out while trying to conjure a better CSS selector. I was mildly annoyed with their "ads look almost the same as results" in recent years, but this latest move may eventually convince me to block StartPage's ads everywhere.