I can't emphasize enough how important Sci hub is now more than ever as science is literally under attack by fascists. Making this less accessible is part of a bigger agenda and is a travesty. I encourage anyone with the ability to mirror to please do so.
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Academic research should be public knowledge
Laughs in DDG and Wikipedia
Laughs in emailing the writers for completely free and legal access.
I once pirated my own publication (I lost the original and it was behind paywall). This world is so fucked in every way.
Jesus fuck those publishers!
How dare you! How absolutely fucking dare you take food out of the mouths of hardworking researchers¹ by stealing their work! You're a monster! Have you considered that if everyone acted like you, we'd have no science at all!?
¹the corporate kind. For some values of 'researcher'.
who tf uses google these days??? even my grandma knows not to.
Can we start slowly boycotting businesses that leverage Google resources? Like, maybe start with one industry, and then hit them hard. "Like hey Steam, my domain filter shows all the Google queries I get from your site. Knock it off or we'll use the competitor!"
Seriously, the Google queries from using Steam are pissing me off for real.
Good thing Google has removed links to this site I had never previously heard of, now I'll definitely not end up on this Sci Hub ^by^ ^accident^
Que Viva Elbakyan! It works pretty well: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=sci-hub&ia=web
Duck duck go is still partially backed by Google right? It's a "meta" search engine?
I thought it used Bing?
Maybe it will drive more people to alternative search engines.
I'm genuinely contemplating paying for kagi at this point. Only one I haven't heard people (fairly) talking shit about recently.
I've paid for kagi for a few years, I would definitely recommend it!
Would recommend. Been using it for a couple years now, and it actually feels gross when I end up on Google.
You will hear shit from a small group on Lemmy about how they also use Yandex for search results, but it's a pretty hollow argument that keeps being used as some big "gotcha". But if that's a turn off for you, it is what it is.
Me too. I used it by default during allowed trial period and found it to be pretty good.
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It's possible. Search engines are just big reference databases.
They have crawlers that search the web based on links to each other and then save metadata about the pages.
There are some projects already that you can use.
The problem is the data, if everyone of us have to build it ourselves it's going to be tedious, and more importantly biased to however you are scraping.
All we need are a few .onion mirrors
TBH if there are no .onion mirrors, it's not a serious anti-censorship project
We need more I2P not Tor

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