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Best cell phone and provider to receive unbiased feedback

Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:12 pm
Posted by Royalfishing
Member since Jul 2023
378 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:12 pm
Iam starting to really dislike Apples constant undates on their IOS software that seems to push the results that pay them the most or fit their agenda. I might be wrong but I’d like to know what y’all know. Iam your grandpa not your peer so be kind and make it simple. What phone should I buy with what provider to have my searches answered w/o political or commercial bias?
Posted by Dallaswho
Texas
Member since Dec 2023
3493 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:50 pm to
It’s has been exactly 19 years(Google IPO) since you could search the web in an information-first biased manner. Ever since then, search has been purposefully designed to give you ads and poor results so that you have to stay on the search site longer to find anything remotely relevant. This is not a secret.

You won’t find a better platform than Apple for non-bias and privacy unless you go full open source and with a non-certified phone it will be very difficult to watch media and what not.

Things may be getting better though. You can try Kagi(paid) or Brave to search.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 5:54 pm
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
14615 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:58 pm to
It's not about Apple. Just set your default search engine to DuckDuckGo. Instructions are here. It's pretty simple to do.
Posted by Dallaswho
Texas
Member since Dec 2023
3493 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:05 pm to
DDG may help a little with privacy but it uses Bing and certainly won’t help with finding things.
Posted by notsince98
KC, MO
Member since Oct 2012
21776 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 9:04 am to
no apple fanboy here but is it just the timing of the updates that bothers you? Because if so, those are for security patches the vast majority of the time. Those are good things.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
14615 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 11:44 am to
It does help with finding things, but I also don't search with strings like "best TV" or "Gavin Newsome achievements."
Posted by Ricardo
Member since Sep 2016
6358 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 2:47 pm to
Try, Qwant.

Qwant

It's an EU based search engine. You can read about it, Wiki to Qwant if you want.

Do I use it? No, but I'm not really that concerned about google tracking.
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