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What search engine y'all are using? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by zerozaku@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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I am kinda fed up off trying all these privacy focused search engines which provide lesser quality service. Here's what I've tried so far:

  1. Duckduckgo: bad results when you search something that piracy related
  2. Searx: I'm not geeky enough to host mine own searx so I just jump from one instance to another and the uptimes have been bad.
  3. Startpage: Idk why it's down most of the time
  4. Ecosia: Not very private, but I just tried it for the sake of it. It's bad when it comes to the results.

Honestly I feel Brave search is the best when it comes to results. But the sketchy practices kept me away from it. Kagi is paid so I haven't tried it.

What have you been using?

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can completely decouple your payment data from your search history with Kagi, something no other search engine allows. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html

[–] leds@feddit.dk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm having a hard time understanding how that works , especially if browser plugin generatesnthe tokens , wouldn't they just b able to look at IP addresses to match searches with payments?

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah they cover both those things in the faq. https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

[–] CorvusCornix@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Ah, that's good information - thanks!