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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by rjh29 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @07:17PM (#37375555)
You got downvoted because your comment is pretentious.

The nuance is difficult, but basically it's because you said "computer-literate". Your comment makes the suggestion that anyone who is computer-literate ought to be using Yandex/DDG, and if they are still using Google, then they are stupid.

A better comment would be "I've been using Yandex/DDG lately and the results are much better than Google!". That's just your experience or opinion - not judging other people or suggesting that they are stupid.

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by simbolit on Sunday September 03, 2023 @09:44PM (#37376388)
Thank you.

I wrote the comment initially without it, then thought about how many people don't even know there are alternative search engines, and added "computer-literate" to make clear I am not talking about normies, but people here on HN.

I can now see how my comment can be read as pretentious.

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