Perfect!

I stand corrected.

Clearly I am the deficient party here.

Really nailed that aneurysm zinger, btw.

I may not be funny, but you’re goddamn hilarious.

Not only do you clearly have no idea what playing devil’s advocate means, conceptually, like at all, but you keep trying to pigeonhole it into your little argument and it has me crying bro, I’m dying laughing.

I can’t believe you’re a real person.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

And you still haven’t provided a single quote of mine showing me what you’re accusing me of.

You literally just said:

“The Defender of Apple” or whatever is in your fucked up head.

But when I ask you to provide a single example of my defending Apple, you respond with:

Man does your brain twist up in pretzels when you think like that?

Obviously you are not acting in good faith, but we knew that from the start.

So are you just incapable of admitting you made a mistake?

I do appreciate the irony of you saying that my mind is twisted up like a pretzel, just beautiful 10/10.

Please show me where I defended the Apple corporation.

Because me thinks you can’t read good.

But don’t worry, there’s a school for that:

And you either didn’t read the entire thread, or you agree that OP is morally superior to anyone who uses Apple products, and that Apple users are people to should be hated outright.

So which is it?

You’re a sad little creature.

If I didn’t hold you in such contempt, I would pity you.

I don’t disagree.

But my comment was a direct response to the user ranting about their superiority to, and hatred of, anyone who uses Apple products.

It’s not my reading comprehension that’s to blame for your rancid hatred of Apple users and I’m confident that your behavior is repulsive to more people than just me.

The irony is that I use Linux for desktop and Graphene for the mobile so my objections are not rooted in defending my own consumer choices, they’re based entirely on your pathetic blind hatred of people who use Apple products.

What argument…?

Out of nowhere, you just started talking shit about Apple users to make yourself feel superior about your specific consumer choices, really cool bro.

Really unclear at who I was making fun of, unless consider pointing out how absurd your Apple hate is, to be making fun of you.

But that’s not making fun of you, it’s pointing out how pathetic your unprompted and vocal hatred for Apple users was.

The only people worse than Apple fans, are Apple haters.

Because I see a lot of vocal Apple haters on Lemmy, just shitting all over Apple users, but I rarely see Apple users here shitting on Android or anything else.

Searxng still has send out queries and receive results, but yes, it’s one of the better options, and I mentioned it in another comment.

Regardless, my beef with Google search isn’t specifically privacy related, it’s that in exchange for giving up some privacy, I get no useful results in return, just slop.

DDG isn’t perfect, but it substantially better than most of the available alternatives.

Externally hosted search engines have to make money, you’ll either exchange some privacy, or some cash, in exchange for results.

I mostly use DDG, but sometimes searx.

Startpage returns similarly dubious results as Google, but with the built-in proxy functionality and no clutter, so it’s also in the rotation.

I’m actually surprised people still heavily use Google search.

Not for some tech snob snark reason, but because it’s unusable.

I only ever go back to Google if I’m really desperate, and I can’t recall the last time it ever delivered me a result I considered useful.

It’s all SEO AI spam, and those are the web results Google returns all of its own AI and shopping bloat.

Completely useless.