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The world's alternative search engine, providing unique and unbiased search results. https://www.mojeek.com/ We believe that privacy is a human right.
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No one should be surprised. Everyone should be concerned. medium.com/@matthewsag/...

Bullybros ... Google added the UK has "historically benefitted from early access" to Google innovations but said this could change as a result of "punitive regulations". 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Overall it strikes me as yet another alarming example of how the ‘Big Data Surveillance Complex’ is becoming the digital age version of the Military-Industrial Complex” www.404media.co/airlines-don...

"AI’s next frontier isn’t enterprise - it’s sovereignty." saanyaojha.substack.com/p/200m-for-1... Sovereignty of what? Of whom?

"Google has lost three separate antitrust cases, and more are on the way. Why does this company still exist in one piece? It shouldn't, but we're still dealing with the hangover of the 1990s." www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-goo...

Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline? www.glamelab.org/products/are...

We feel young www.webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Search without surveillance

ex-board member @hlntnr.bsky.social on "shameless spin" helentoner.substack.com/p/supercompu...

What do I use every day at Mojeek: 👥 Discourse 📧 Fastmail 👨‍💻 Gitlab ✍️ LibreOffice ☁️ NextCloud 💬 Zulip

Up-to-date & informative table on alternatives www.rebeltechalliance.org/search.html

This is the combo that helps you completely avoid Gen AI (as long as you don't choose to add it): Share! Mobile: @grapheneos.org on Pixel @vivaldi.com Tor Browser @mojeek.com Desktop: Linux distros other than Red Hat/Fedora Tor Browser LibreWolf @vivaldi.com @mojeek.com 🧵

Not all growth is good for users — especially when you end up the product.

Are they protecting homes 🏠 or building a panopticon 👁️? Are they protecting homes 🏠 or building a panopticon 👁️? Are they protecting homes 🏠 or building a panopticon 👁️? Are they protecting homes 🏠 or building a panopticon 👁️? Are they protecting homes 🏠 or building a panopticon 👁️?

A reworked guide - hope this helps you and others find a new Search Engine! This week's top mentions: 1. @kagi.com - high-quality searches (paid) 2. @qwant.bsky.social - high-quality searches (free with adverts) 3. @mojeek.com - a truly independent search engine (free) #degoogle #oc #boycott

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“The biggest leap forward in usability of the iPhone was just engineered by a judge,” prospect.org/justice/2025...

Mozilla are shuttering Pocket and Fakespot. Sad but it that means focussing on Firefox, great. But to suggest they have "independence" 😂 Are Google going to drop them or be forced too in th antitrust case?

"some search engines can use results or indexes provided by Big Tech, while companies may use software or services... created by US tech firms. So trying to distance yourself entirely may not be as straightforward as it first looks." sometimes it's straightforward 😜 www.wired.com/story/the-pr...

An evaluation of the search engine landscape www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx58...

Top-down search - directories and categorisation Bottom-up search - Focus blog.mojeek.com/2022/08/moje...

No Memecoins. Just Search.

Apple’s Real Innovation - Supply Chain Diplomacy 🍏Read the review: restofworld.org/2025/apple-c... 🍎Watch the interview: m.youtube.com/watch?v=NAj9...

Reasons to be cheerful 1, 2, 3 ... And not just for those being dumped by Bing API blog.mojeek.com/2023/03/reas...

The Web: 🌐 decentralized. Then came 📱 platforms, 💰 paywalls, and ☁️ clouds. Now AI rolls in — 🎰 all chips on centralization.

Not even AI-second www.searchenginejournal.com/the-rise-of-...

Cough 😶‍🌫️

Answer Engine An AI surveillance oracle that confidently serves up the official answer™ — even when it's dead wrong or flattens nuance beneath its weight. "I asked the answer engine for alternatives—it gave me the most popular opinion and told me diversity is inefficient."

Who can Big Tech learn dark arts from? Forced to us them this weekend, Ticketmaster comes to mind 🤮 Some alternatives: 🌱 Ticketpass @ticketpassHQ 🛡️ Ticket Tailor @noticketfees ♻️ Zero Waste Tickets zerowastetickets.com 💖 Humanitix humanitix.com What's your take? Who else should folks know of?

Don't be fooled by the headlines. The real battle is over your autonomy. blog.peoplevsbig.tech/wtf-is-tech-...

👾 The 20th edition of The People, our newsletter with @the-citizens.bsky.social, is out! US tech giants control much of our online world. This week, we're looking at the impact this has not only on the security of other nation states, but on people and planet. blog.peoplevsbig.tech/wtf-is-tech-...

🔎 Ranking + clustering upgrades 🛡️ Same privacy promise Plus recent takes on alternatives—read it all here: buttondown.com/Mojeek/archi...

Steering wheel: optional. Data collection: mandatory. www.carscoops.com/2025/04/toyo...

Early 21st century history lesson. Popularism as a Map. h/t ente.com

Today is World Password Day 🎭 We celebrate by not asking for one 🕶️ You knew that already 🔐

🇺🇸 "Big Tech trade associations and data brokers peddling consumer data are trying to kill a rule that would limit how they can sell sensitive personal information like your Social Security number and home address. " jacobin.com/2025/04/big-...