European Union Alternatives; the conflation of "from Europe" and "from countries in the EU" is one which needs pointing out here. Also all the search options use indexes which come from outside of the EU/Europe.

After many years of people misusing the word Luddite, it's time to bring back its actual meaning.

given the amount of time stract has been around i doubt that they have 8-billion plus pages like Mojeek

next up on our show "shit people never asked for" ...

Looks like I'm finally going to have to start wearing the ol' anti facial recognition makeup

that might be useful i guess if google hadn't shredded every tiny piece of trust we had in them

yeah but this guy elon musk said on twitter that it's sus so at this point who knows? /s

We are about to witness the most unbearable chatbot of all time.

it's pretty rich in history as a lot of famous (and not-so-famous) art can be; it tells you a lot about the people living during a period, what they thought about the world, how power worked etc.

this is a very dismissive take on this form of art as a whole, and is the kind which really does help the techbros who think that this kind of work and effort could simple be replaced by machines

the world's most-used search engine prioritising an AI-generated slop version of a very famous painting is very much "technology news and articles" imo

it's the link above: https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/

A bundle of people say they have a paywall but they don't, they have an AI-bot-wall which can be got around with a free account. I'd recommend it tbh because they are doing very good work.

I pay the yearly subscription to support them as they are very much a rare entity in tech media: independent, reader-supported, and willing to ask difficult questions of tech companies, not fawn over their newest doodads.

You should read the 404 piece, it's considerably less sensational and doesn't flat lie in the headline. I hate Big Tech too, but this is very bad framing.