Not only is it opt in, it's also running fully locally on your machine.
What letter is the black blob covering?
Yup, exactly, no standardized APIs.
The reality is, though, that there are no such APIs. LLMs on the other hand could be a valid tool for the use case.
Iona Lake sounds like "I own a lake"
Heh, reminds me of this ancient meme from when the iPad first came out
DownOnSpot is ~~the only~~ one correct answer.
Edit: Zotify and Onthespot (which has a GUI) look good, as they too download straight from the source.
The "daingert Madelyn" in the last panel is from a CAPTCHA challenge. In case you're not aware, CAPTCHAs used to present squiggly pseudo-words like that for you to decipher. I suppose they still might, but they used to, too.
And the joke is, well, it was always funny when the two words somehow made sense
Edit: And to totally kill the joke, "daingert" kinda looks/sounds like "dangit" in a southern(?) accent if you squint enough
Google no longer has the blobs either, this abomination was replaced back in 2018
And it was actually the "😬" emoji, not "😣"