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.

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No it's called censorship.

don't most alternative search engines just use google or bing as a source?

Or use a search engine to access it in general. Anna's Archive itself is a search engine, it's better to just bookmark it and search for stuff directly from there.

I've seen a lot of very tech savvy people still using google and chrome to this day. It's the top search engine. The majority of people use it, including pirates.

They probably don't, tbh. Question is if this will even affect the traffic in any way.

If I want to find a pdf, whether it be a book, comic or research paper, I use Yandex - Google has been unusable in that way for a long time now.

I usually use ddg but sometimes it can't find things in non-English languages whereas google has the results I'm looking for.

Waiting to see who grapheneOS is working with next year and what models, then completely and finally degoogling my life.

yandex is better, ddg is just bing

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.

Pretty sure startpage shows the same results as google.

Mojeek is a search engine that prides itself on lack of censorship, but it can be hard to find things there as well.

Operating from countries that don't care combined with s decent level of opsec while being used by large corporations really does wonders for a site's uptime

What's good these days? Qwant was leading me to scam sites.