What’s the best alternative for ddg? They sold info to Microsoft & that’s a no-go for me. So what’s a good private search engine?
I stopped using brave when they made brave replace links with their afíliate links and the CEO was shown to have donated a lot of money to anti-gay causes/politicians
Yeah. I use https://pulsebrowser.app but if you want a browser that’s super privacy focused and stable there’s https://librewolf.net
Have you tried searx? There’s a lot of open source instances. If you want to use Google with some privacy there’s also whoogle. Tbh I haven’t tried any, just read about them. Hope this helps!
I would recommend searxng its a little bit better and yeah.You can easily self host that too :) Its a meta (not the company) search engine. It requests multiple search engine. Its a really good way to aggregate multiple results from different search engine.
Isn’t that ultimately like a VPN though? i.e. a different server is making the requests to those search engines and forwarding results to you? Why not just use a VPN and access your favorite directly if you don’t care about aggregated results?
Then the thing is VPNs are the trojan horse themself. They know what you search, they know who you are. There are some exceptions, but in general they know those things. Its not like a vpn its like a proxy. It just proxies the content for you. From all of your wanted websites, you can easily self host it with docker.
I have been using Presearch since hearing about it a few months ago and it seems up to par.
https://searx.space/ to show public instances, or host your own