Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by neya on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:48AM (#48266806)

They also had a browser called Orion and till date that gave me anxiety because YouTube videos won't play the first time you load them, you need to refresh the page (randomly) and similar other weird quirks. It's state hasn't changed much over the last year either, so I switched back to Brave now.

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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by lambdas on Monday May 25, 2026 @10:02AM (#48266986)

I don’t think that’s Orion specific, I have the exact same issue with Safari and Firefox

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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by wholinator2 on Monday May 25, 2026 @10:35AM (#48267359)

I'll pitch in that since youtube was bought by Google it's become pretty anticompetitive too. They've absolutely been caught degrading their product on all browsers except chrome. I've witnessed this numerous times on Firefox on my android. Videos refusing to play, subtitles appearing off the screen, refusing to fullscreen, and at least 3 more annoying things i can't remember anymore.

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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by hn_go_brrrrr on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:15AM (#48267855)

This is incompetence, not malice. YT devs would skip testing on Chrome if they could get away with it, but are forced to.

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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by account42 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @05:16AM (#48291659)

Incompetence at scale is malice. We're talking about a mega-corporation gobbling up some of the brightest minds of our generation, not some garage startup that is barely able to keep the lights on.

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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by hn_go_brrrrr on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:36AM (#48381044)

I'll agree with some of the brightest minds, but some Googlers I worked with were mediocre at best.

Also, I don't really understand what your catchy phrase means. Google's management is being malicious by not forcing their employees to not be lazy?

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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by nosioptar on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:07AM (#48267771)

On numerous occasions, I had issues with YouTube and Firefox that were fixed by changing the user agent to make it look like chrome.

I stopped using YouTube 10+ years ago, so no clue if it still the case.

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