I’ve recently learned that DDG does not follow its own guidelines for privacy. I’m curious what search engines people here would recommend. I would prefer a search engine that not only respects my privacy but also doesn’t hide or shadow ban content it doesn’t like. Any recommendations?
Startpage (basically a proxy for Google afaik), Murena Spot, SearX, Qwant, SwissCows
I use Qwant and Startpage for most things, but tend towards Qwant due to speed.
I primarily use Startpage for image search, though, because you can specify exact resolutions.
In my phone Murena Spot was always the default search engine and it’s fine. I switch between it and Qwant Lite.
When I want someone to search more privately without getting different results, I always recommend Startpage.
SwissCows is odd, if you can not search “brown sugar”, it is better to avoid it.
I’ll take a look, thank you! I had actually looked into SearX but it seemed like it required some additional setup. I’ll check Startpage and Qwant though!
Can you elaborate?
There is censorship, there is discrimination and then there is swisscows, it has all.
Who in their right mind would block random innocent searches for no reason?
depends on your usecase, some people actually prefer the extreme filters it has to make content family friendly