I’ve been trying to find a good privacy respecting browser, but I can’t really decide on what to use. I don’t like the search results with Brave Search. DuckDuckGo shares my information with Microsoft and SearchXNG shows me NSFW images even with strict search on. I really like Presearch, but I’m not really sure what they’re about.
EDIT: After tinkering with the settings of my SearXNG instance, it seems to have reduced the amount of NSFW images. I think I will stick with SearXNG for now.
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It seemed extremely sketchy to me, most results were from other engines and it was embracing some weird crypto.
The best is to self host your own SearXNG metasearch engine.
Does that not defeat the point, because then they can see that the searches are coming from your location/internet?
I host my searxng instance on a hetzner vps so my ip is not leaked anywhere.
Care to explain how?
The search requests are being made on my behalf on the host (in my case, the hetzner VPS).
But they are always coming from the same IP, so you are still identifiable. If you want increased anonymity you need more people to use your instance to mix the search topics.
What does DDG share with Microsoft?
It’s probably not that big of a deal, but I just don’t want anything to do with Microsoft.
So they only share when you click on an ad. I use an adblocker anyway, so effectively they’re not sharing anything. Or do I misunderstand?
I think it’s more of a trust issue.
Exactly. It’s sorta like all or nothing. If they share this, go figure what else. And maybe you misunderstood or missed some other parts.
Have you considered StartPage ?
It returns google results whilst stripping of all google tracking and does not track itself either.
There’s some concern now that Startpage is majority owned by an ad company. The company says they want the ad revenue rather than the user data, but it’s hard to trust that. I used to use it but moved to Searxng.
I can only say good things about kagi. They let you adjust your search results according to how much you trust a given source, and the business model makes sense. You pay them, they give you a service. Heck, if you pay for unlimited searches, they have an actual incentive to make you search less and make you find results quickly
Kagi uses russian Yandex and pretend it is neutral “business as usual”:
https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo
Depending on what you’re searching for, Yandex might be the better option though. For example, things relating to piracy are probably going to be easier to find on Yandex than Google, because corporations file billions of DMCA notices every year. It’s one of the reason I use SearXNG, so I know I’m not getting the corporate sanitized version of the web.
Another $10 subscription just to browse the web… I don’t think it’s for me.
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You pay with money or privacy, but pay you must. 😉
SearXNG seems to be free and private, checkmate!
If you pay for privacy, other than a vpn provider, you are a victim already
