Privacy and all is great, but it usually comes at the cost of UX/UI. I’m wondering are there any privacy-respecting search engines which look a lot like Google? I’m using SearXNG along with Librewolf, but god does it look horrible. (Coming from Chrome-Chromium based browsers and Google search engine)
I went from Google to DuckDuckGo and was not happy so I switched to Qwant. Using it for around 9months now and works great + is very privacy focused.
I like Kagi. you have to pay for it, but it worth and ceirtanly dont bother you with ads anyway at all
Not the most private but still a lot better than Google: DuckDuckGo
yeah it does look really good and i like some of the features + not US-based. only questionable thing is that they are not open source. ill probably use it from now on.
Well thats not true. Yes,they show ads but not by tracking. That works by: u searched vpns → vpn ads. thats it. no invasive tracking.
the search engine looks great actualy, but some ppl would prefer startpage or duckduckgo
For one, you can’t see the source code of their search engine, only of the browser. As with Google and Microsoft, who knows what they do? SearX and SearXNG are much better alternatives.
Also, their history has a few “honest mistakes” that harmed user privacy while coincidentally making them money, e.g. rewriting URLs into affiliate links, siphoning crypto donations meant to users, trying to have its own advertising network to have ads built into the browser.
Additionally, their CEO is notoriously gives money to anti-gay groups and is publicly anti-gay. I’m not keen to help a group with such a CEO when Firefox is a great alternative without this kind of leadership.
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Woops, I misunderstood the comment and thought it was about Brave.
Duckduckgo is not ideal as a search engine because it does not opensource their search engine. Although they seem to have a good privacy policy, who knows what they do without telling us.
Their browser is a fork of Google’s Chromium browser (i.e. similar to how a chocolate strawberry cake is a modified version of a basic cake), so using it helps Google assert their monopoly over the browser market (they have ~90%) and harm the competition and users (read up on FLoC, Manifest V3, etc). The only mainstream solution currently to fight Google is Firefox.
It was compromised a few times and data leaks happened
other ‘anonymous’ search engines do so as well; as long as it’s actually anonymous it’s fine i’d say
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DuckDuckGo has been compromised zero times and had zero data leaks