This is my only source. I've never even checked for other ones, mostly because I assume they're all astroturfed by the FBI.
Do any of you per use other ones? Even if you want to keep the forum name private I'm just curious If this is your only source, or if you guys check others.
Agreed. A shell of what it once was. The entire internet is being obfuscated and hidden by AI now. You can't search on search engines... everything is total crap.
There is almost no point in trying to continue using the internet IMO.
AI sucks, but most people are too dumb to realize it... so they just accept what it tells them and believe that its really scouring billions of points of data before giving results lol. So sad to see what its become.
Yandex.com and archive.org do still appear to helpful, but generally you are correct that internet has been getting "locked down" slowly, but surely. Even OpenVPN nodes getting locked down in West (with only periodic US exception) and disrupted regularly in the East. VPN node list has to be reset each week.
Treat it like a lossy search engine. I get pretty good results on engineering questions when I ask in small chunks and accept it's output as opinion, not fact.
The problem is you can't tell what the actual fact is when you aren't allowed to inspect the sources... sometimes you can tell it to show you justification and it will show sources but not always.
It hallucinates stuff all the time you can't trust anything it says.