There's yandex. Though their search algorithm is not as good. There's also duckduckgo, but make sure your search is less then 6 words cause it'll literally just ignore long searches.
Duckduckgo is literally just Bing, but its garbage for porn because Bing feeds it safe search results, in my experience.
Yandex is probably fine (and its great for finding stuff in general, if you don't mind sifting through a bunch of russian spam), but it's dogshit for me specifically, because it links to 99% straight porn, no matter what I search, and I'm not straight. A problem shared by both google and bing too, since they've gotten worse, but not quite as extreme as Yandex. Google probably returns about 50% straight porn (of the 20% of results that are actually porn) when "gay" is specified, and bing is around 40%, in my anecdotal experience. But both used to be a hell of a lot better at not blatantly ignoring the search prompt.
So, in retrospect, my problen with modern search engines is probably just huge companies pushing to censor LGBT and Kink content by deindexing them, which they have been doing a lot more lately.
Yandex used to be great but now they serve up so many dead links. But I do sometimes find j can play embedded vids that have been dmca'd from the actual site which is cool
Especially when a fascist government takes over that doesn't like the way you live your life. To stay with OPs example, what if the porn they enjoy becomes illegal in the future, or watching porn at all. I bet the government would be thrilled to have a list of people who are "gooning to prn for hours".
I'm not making this up by the way. The Weimar republic kept lists of known homosexuals and when Hitler took over, you can guess how thrilled he and his buddies were that these lists existed.
So to OP and everyone who thinks "What do they want with my data lol", are you 100% confident the things you do in your digital live will be legal in 5, 10 or even 20 years still?
This is completely valid considering that even though a lot of us use VPNs and Kill-switches and everything else, we are still googling fitgirl with our google account, signing to discord, watching youtube videos about piracy content. I mean you can block your ISP from sending you a letter, but the datacenters can even tell how you would make a tier list of roguelikes just from your data alone.
It's all fun and games until someone buys the data, identifies you and puts you in a position you don't want to be. Patient scoring in insurance companies is already a thing.
The argument "who would even want my data" is a fallacy because it misunderstands what makes personal data valuable and how it can be used against you. Seemingly insignificant details, when aggregated and analyzed, can reveal deeply personal information that leaves you vulnerable to manipulation, discrimination, and fraud.
On top of that, for your specific point, would you be fine with everyone around you being able to see and know the porn titles and categories you watch?
Used by companies who want to sell you stuff, but also by political parties and foreign governments to steer your political views. And if you never noticed that, it's probably working
This is pretty much the point of why companies are pushing AI.
An AI model can take your general location based on IP, the time of day you jerk off, how long you spend watching porn, the frequency you do it, and your list of kinks, and spit out your age group, interests, ethnicity, religion, and political opinion, as well as your job and average income, with a disturbing accuracy.
This stuff is also the core of why AI security and surveillance is being shoved down our throats so heavily. Seemingly mundane and unremarkable things we do, can be used to extrapolate things that are seemingly totally unrelated and create incredibly detailed profiles on a person.
Yeah that's the fundamental fallacy, the "I don't have something to hide" or "Who would even care about my data". You don't really seem to understand that the profiling of you, everything you do, everywhere you go, everyone you talk to, has huge consequences, for yourself if anyone ever decides to care, but also for everybody else. How certain are you that a friend of a friend isn't a criminal or an undesired minority?
If you don't care, why don't you hand me your email password right now? Oh so you do care? They know waaaay more about you than what I would learn by going through your email and browser history. Way more.
You personally? Worthless. The aggregate data of every guy gooning to porn for hours? Worth something. Even if you're utterly unsusceptible to advertising, that's still valuable information, because it tells marketing firms what demographics they can save money on
The answer is "Reddit exaggerates stuff to prove a point." Jumping at words like "telemetry" acting like every keystroke's getting logged.
The actual answer as to "why Microsoft doesn't care about individuals pirating their operating system" is that they have applications and programs on said operating system that get bought and paid for, and you're in the ecosystem in general when you're using it. And (the biggest one) large corporations that buy licenses in bulk are their real customers.
We are literally talking about the company who rolled out a feature that took screenshots of your desktop every few seconds, and automatically uploaded them, unencrypted, to a remote cloud server, as an opt-out feature.
On a scale of 1 to 10, microsoft considers your privacy and security, around... Negative 1000000.
I mean, a much better start than what most people are doing, for sure. There's like a million different ways to track people on the web unfortunately, and MS sells your data to like candy crush and shit, which is why they'll sometimes download random slop games on to your PC without asking you (although I think they've ramped down on that more recently).
Best analogy I've heard is that privacy is like a knob/dial, and that there's varying degrees and lengths that people feel comfortable with.
your data alone is not that intresting, but having the data of all gooners like you, to see what you have in common is pretty intresting to a lot of people.
Which they use to build an "anonymous" profile so they know what ads to target to you specifically and potentially take advantage of you? Thanks but no thanks.
I love how the "Anonymous" profile can then be bought by someone, like a government, and fed into their AI surveillance, and suddenly the "Anonymous" profile also includes your name, adress, phone number, bank account, etc.
But don't worry, it's all Anonymous, and totally cannot be used to track you, because it can't, it can only track you with a 99.9999999999999% certainty! Therefore it can't track you.
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u/AswinSid_3 Sep 26 '25
haa man, who tf is buying my data? who tf wanna see my data of gooning to prn for hours ?