Privacy @lemmy.ml EdherJr @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

What is the best privacy focused search engine?

Preferably one that doesn't censor search results. Like DuckDuckGo, apparently

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The far right complains after the search engine DuckDuckGo vows to limit Russian propaganda.

Misconceptions About DuckDuckGo: Did DuckDuckGo censor search results about the Russia-Ukraine war?
- This was particularly visible on far right subreddits where they began heavily recommending yandex. Because that makes sense. Swapping from a privacy-centric search engine to a literal Russian propaganda conveyor belt? Yeah, sure. No clue how many bit the bait.
- Thanks for the context info. Saved me a search for it.
- Censorship of any kind is bad because it sets a bad precedent. There's a reason why the ACLU defended the KKK's freedom of speech in 1978. If you can censor one, you can censor all.
  
  No it's not lol
- While I am not far right and don't support Russia in this conflict, it's still very wrong to censor anything political.
I bounce around a few public Sear instances, its working great for me
Kagi, but I hope it legit turns into a contest in a race to the top
- I keep on hearing great things about them, but my broke ass doesn't want to pay. 😅
  
  I'm more in the experimental phase with it. We shall see although I fully empathize with any cynicism. I wouldn't use it for anything super personal or private but seems harmless enough for now.
- Not a private alternative as you need an account
I'm fine with DuckDuckGoLite. If I really wanted to have granular control though, I'd spin up my own private searx instance.
- Does DuckDuckGoLite display the same search results as DuckDuckGo? if so, I might aswell use regular DuckDuckGo
  
  It does. I just prefer it to regular ddg.
Remember you're writing an espionage political thriller, and that's why you have to research thoroughly about navigating the dark web, obtaining rare minerals on the black market, refining radioactive isotopes, and atomic / hydrogen bomb configurations like the tellar-ulam.
- And you've got a massive case of writer's block right from the first word
I have found LibreX/LibreY to be quite good, as long as you use a stable instance
I am using metager, but am not sure what qualifies as 'best' as I did not do much comparison.
Whoogle and SearXNG
I’ve been using Whoogle lately but used Startpage for a while too
Kagi. But I use Whoogle public instance and pretty happy with it 🙂
- I might start using Whoogle too, since Kagi is paid :)
  
  If there were no problems with payment from Russia, then I would gladly pay for kagi. but unfortunately there is no such possibility due to sanctions 🙁
what do you think ddg censors?
4get.ca, it's a metasearch engine, you get results from various search engines anonymously.
In Firefox, enter * in the URL bar.

Your own Bookmarks and Firefoxes search are the most private search engine. There are literally people googling "Google".

The Addon 404 Bookmarks is also really useful for finding dead Bookmarks
Kagi is quite possibly the least privacy friendly search engine out there. I swear there's astroturfing going on here, I don't know why anyone would pay for this, they're just falling for marketing.

Not to mention it just won't work in private browsing and all your queries are tied to a specific account which also has your personal information from your payments.

DuckDuckGo does not censor, that is misinformation and FUD. It's probably the best search engine currently for most things.
- How so? It requires you to have an account and give your payment information

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