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What the fuck are we supposed to do when the services we use are monopolies which actively seeks to destroy its competition as well as enshittify itself to a point its unusable :|
Time to start self hosting.
There is simply no usable self-hosted search engine. There are some projects like Yacy or Searxng, but they do not have their own index. And having your own self-hosted index is kind of impossible because you need to save the whole of the web on your own devices to be able to search it.
The time was 10 years ago.
And the next best time is now. Kinda like planting trees.
And pirate. Steal anything they try and sell to you
Point of order, if you mean pirate as in infringe copyright, that isn't stealing.
I mean get a group of friends together and start pillaging Target stores.
ten year ago there were still things we could have done to stop google. now is too late...