I'm surprised that someone that would use Anna's Archive, would use Google as their search engine.
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Well that's a funny coincidence, I've removed Google URLs and services from all my devices and browsers.
Here is the front page: https://annas-archive.org/
Everyone knows Ducks are the best for sailing the waters! (noai.duckduckgo.com) lol
yandex is better, ddg is just bing
isn’t yandex Russian owned?
Yes, that's why they don't care about copyrighted content outside of Russia.
it is. it also doesnt work well with js disabled and shows many captchas which absolutely sucks. the search results are pretty good tho.
Yes, and while it may give you results that you won't find in Western search engines, it's still controlled by the state in what it puts out.
Oh boy, copyright holders are about to learn about the Streisand effect
isnt this kind of good thing? The original website is the best for searching stuff from there and by doing this, it takes off some heat from the website
It's a bad thing because people are less likely to come across it at all.
We should stop being afraid to fight because we think our oppressors will fight back.
That's bitch-made, punk-ass behavior.
Good thing I use Startpage
Am I wrong in thinking it's better that it doesn't show up in google result? Of course it sucks that it is deliberately hidden, but I feel like it will help the site staying under the radar from unwanted attention. People who put a slight effort to find it will still be able to find it.
same reason i wonder why some anime/movie websites i use urge their users to share stuff about it to others. Just keep your head down damn it, so I dont have to constantly search for new decent websites.
What's really weird is that the byline(?) says this article was published "today", when I saw this exact same headline more than a week ago.
Annas Archive is better using their own in site search function anyway. I'm okay with this if it reduces AA legal exposure and just remains sort of an "open" secret
The problem being...? Lots of alternative search engines out there and if you already know Anna's archive, just use that to search for stuff.
No it's called censorship.
A private company deciding what to show (and what no to) is not censorship, mate.
don't most alternative search engines just use google or bing as a source?
Just use Yandex if you want to search for somewhat shady stuff.
They already found and downloaded the torrents to train their LLM. Double standard.
I don't understand how Anna's Archive continues to operate, but I'm glad it does. If this keeps the lawyers at bay, and the site online, I'm fine with it. Anna's has its own search function that works just fine.
Google quit being a useful search engine quite some time ago.
What's good these days? Qwant was leading me to scam sites.

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