[plaguepilled]

I would love a "dumb" search that strips out EVERYTHING except the results and their summaries. No AI. No images. Nothin'.

At present I just filter it out with ublock, but I wish I didn't have to, y'know?

[jerjerjer]

"Dumb" things are going away. Wanted to buy a small speaker recently. Almost every model is riddled with: 1) Smart assistans 2) Manufacturer app (with treble/bass/eq controls locked in app).

Same things with TV and many more home appliances.

We are expected to pay extra to finance data collection ops on ourselves and be happy for the priviledge.

[MichaelZuo]

High end small speakers still are mostly usable, with purely optional apps.

Look into B&O.

[jerjerjer]

B&O sounds great (tried Emerge), but they are ridiculously overpriced.

Bought Marshall Middleton - no assistants, no mandatory app, jack input, bass/treble buttons.

[not_your_vase]

My problem isn't that I have to filter, but the remaining part is pretty much useless.

Google is worse every day. Bing isn't getting any better either. DDG is of course Bing, with extra filters. Yandex is.. well... for some very niche searches it's actually nice, as long as it's a topic Russians don't care about. But they display a captcha every 2nd click. Marginalia goes only for niche sites, which is great if you are looking for that. But it avoids mainstream. Have been playing with Mojeek recently, but it seems to lack a bunch of websites also.

Personally I'm considering running my personal Marginalia (at least it's open source), with my own sitefilter. But still just considering.

[darthmallrat]

You can get pretty close to this using Kagi's search settings and then using the custom css option to hide the remaining bits.