Hey, do you know what is the best search engine in terms of privacy? Maybe duckduckgo? I ask because I don’t want to be a product all the time…
I don’t know if I am knocking for the right forum, sorry in advance if not the right ones!
thanks in advance!
Try Dogpile.
I don’t know how private it is, but it gets the best search results of any
Def not duckduckgo. There was a time yes, but they’re on record from last year talking about how they track and just redirect a lot of stuff to Bing.
Brave search does a decent job. Maybe do that, use a good VPN, addons like ublock origin, and maybe look into TOR.
There is no privacy when your computers hooked to the internet.
And what if that search engine is not running on Linux?
These would all be reasonable choices:
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Duckduckgo
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Brave Search
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Startpage
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A self hosted option like SearXNG or Whoogle
I use startpage. It’s a bit slower but gives good results. And for now it hasn’t been politically involved like duckduckgo.
I like Brave and I’ve never had an issue running it on Linux.
Google through a VPN
Duckduckgo censors “extremist content” and have said as much. By “extremist content” they mean anything right of Mao. And remember every great political reform started as extremist or even illegal like representative democracy or constitutional monarchy instead of monarchy, etc.
What exactly are you worried about? Anything web service that isnt self hosted should be assumed to be tracking everything you do, including duckduckgo. You say you dont want to be a product - for that you dont need privacy or anonymity, pseudonymity and changing identities are sufficient. For example you can just use any search engine like google with tor browser and make sure to restart the browser periodically and you cant reasonably be tracked. Dont log in of course.
Just use Google, the only ones looking at any of your data are just computer algorithms
Maybe try Swisscows search engine
VPN with any browser is more private then without a VPN.
I use a few different one’s, for different reasons. The Duckduckgo is my default browser, mostly because I like the interface & I’m used to it. Then Firefox because of the features & tools, probably one of the best for developers & what not. I’ll use Tor browser when I’m being overly paranoid. I also I really like the features & everything with with Brave, but I just can’t get used to the interface idk.
Mainly you need a VPN with a good tracking blocker too. Also going to Google, Facebook, Amazon etc etc is about as non private as it gets, so if you don’t have a VPN then Tor browser would be the most private.
I use DuckDuckGo because of DuckDuckGo bangs, and because they don’t have ads as the first result when searching a product
SearX is no longer maintained. Use SearXNG
Edit: Wait I found it, if you had Microsoft trackers already they wouldn’t block them
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/microsoft-trackers-run-afoul-of-duckduckgo-get-added-to-blocklist/
Not exactly as you quoted it and better then most out there.
There was something about duckduckgo that never suited me. However, intuition was right! Thx