Try Kagi - it is literally the search experience you are talking about. I've been using it for 6 months, and will use it for majority of searches. The only time I need AI "search" is for follow-up questions.

Web Search isn't shitty. Google and Bing have become shitty. I use Kagi and it is exactly the seamless experience you are talking about.

I use Kagi as well. Search is still shit because so many of the underlying pages are ad riddled shit. We might not be using Google but so much of the web still targets it.

Self-promotion, but the music I release here is totally free to use in your own projects. It's all CC0

https://makertube.net/a/johnoestmannmusic/video-channels

The plugin "Unhook" lets you granularly block many different features of YouTube. I'll often turn off recommendations when I know I don't want to get pulled down rabbitholes.

It has made YouTube much healthier in my life. Imagine if YouTube themselves let you turn these features on and off.

Lemmy has everything that Reddit does. It's federated - I would recommend lemmy.world or lemmy.ml for people from HackerNews

Every Tesla is essentially a camera for Elon. I think more countries should consider that a national security risk.

I've been creating a regular magazine (inspired by 90s/2000s gaming magazines) focused on celebrating quality art + tools, released for free by their creators.

Not everything is open-source, but I try to go for FOSS options where possible.

I thought that this community might enjoy it!

Second this. F-droid opens all the doors, is pro open-source, and use AppManager through F-droid to remove Google's bloatware!

I just discovered that, somehow, having a YouTube Video embedded on my website is allowing them to block a totally separate link on my page. It then emphasizes the "Go Back" button, which does not take you to my site, but takes you to YouTube!

Tested on Firefox, Chrome, LibreWolf and WaterFox for Mobile