We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

  • pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
    9·
    6 days ago

    Wouldn’t it be great to have a search engine that would bring up sites and services like those in this thread, and exclude enshittified trash like youtube, amazon, etc etc.

      • pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
        4·
        6 days ago

        Good point. I would prefer to crowdsource the whitelist I think. Also, it would be cool to do stuff like search youtube but bring up a link to a dis-enshittified youtube intermediary.

        • Special Wall@midwest.socialEnglish
          6·
          6 days ago

          That is also something you can do with Kagi. 😆 I have it set up so that all YouTube results redirect me to Invidious, as well as Reddit and Twitter for their respective frontends.

            • Special Wall@midwest.socialEnglish
              2·
              5 days ago

              To create a redirect:

              1. Go to https://kagi.com/settings/redirects
              2. Click “Add Rule”
              3. In the bottom box, use the following format to create your redirect:
              ^https://original.domain.tld/|https://new.domain.tld/

              For example, to replace www.youtube.com with inv.nadeko.net (an Invidious instance), you can use the rule

              ^https://www.youtube.com/|https://inv.nadeko.net/

              I’ve also created a copy of this rule for any youtu.be results, as well as X/Twitter and Reddit for their respective frontends. This will work for any pair of websites if you can simply replace the domain in the URL and have it pull up the correct content on the alternative website.

              • subtex@lemmy.world
                1·
                5 days ago

                Thanks for this!

                Where the heck is this advanced page linked to? Maybe it’s not shown by default on mobile, but there is no advanced menu section or button in the settings page for me when I view it on my phone.

                Directly typing the advanced url works of course but this is super frustrating that it’s not visible for me otherwise. I wonder what else I’m not seeing as I mostly interact with Kagi on mobile

      • staph@sopuli.xyz
        22·
        6 days ago

        If only they didn’t pay Yandex, a company affiliated with Russian govt

        • Special Wall@midwest.socialEnglish
          61·
          6 days ago

          It comes down to the fact that Kagi’s first priority in search is providing the best results, so they’re not going to turn down access to another search api based on politics.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      8·
      6 days ago

      Edit: Stract.com it is what Google was like in early 2000s. It’s not perfect, but its free till the dude dev running it in his basement needs paid support