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Yup. Start by not using Google’s search engine. Use DuckDuckGo, instead.

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I’d use Ecosia. Private searching that also plants trees.

www.ecosia.org

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Duckduck is definitely a good start, but keep in mind it just anonymizes Google search for you. Brave, Quant, Mojeek and more have indexed their own databases. We need entirely different setups to get around Google’s massive censorship and opinion shaping algos that Duckduck cannot bypass. Searx is also interesting as it allows you to choose from a large list of different search engines.

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I thought that Duckduck Go used Bing and the one who anonymizes Google is Start Page, or both do that?

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Its the other way around. Startpage uses Bing.

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How is the experience of using those search engines with their own indexes? At quick glance, brave seems adequate, but would like to know what others think.

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I think they are pretty good, and return some stuff that is censored out of Google and Bing. And if I don’t find what I’m looking for, its very easy to use Bing which is pretty similar to Google. Microsoft is no better than Google, but we can let them serve us when it suits us, rather than the other way around.

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