I personally use Metager. Open source, and funded by a nonprofit. Its also carbon neutral which is really nice.
thanks. now I’m using it too.
You’re right, it’s a very interesting search engine and it complied on its promise to be good for the environment.
From the “website carbon calculator”
When a website is loaded, the energy used is roughly proportional to the amount of data transferred.
Thats not entirely true, maybe they should measure the power their useless animations and javascript waste too -.-
I would recommend you using the English version because the Spanish one has not the translations finished.
Other idea would be helping to translate it.
They own a GitLab instance.
Other idea would be helping to translate it.
How can I help with the translation?
AFAIK, https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source where https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer is the search engine specifically.
There cool and around since forever. Sadly according to their privacy policy they forward parts of user agent and ip to third partys to show “non-personalized ads”. But you can use them via their onion service :)
You can also donate in quantity or, if you know German, submit the membership form to receive a key to remove partnered suggestions in their instance.
Thanks for the recommendation!
it’s beeni have seen it pushing link tracking into their html(non-js) site. that has prompted me to quit. i’m using qwant for the time being although it kinda sucks for things that i research.
i use a searx instance(google) for one of my browsers on mobile.
the best solution is going to have to be to build something custom.And it should be custom, beautiful, and open source.
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There’s a certain irony to a page that’s accusing DDG of being “a privacy abuser in disguise” whose site causes this:
I looked at the information they provided, and Gabriel Weinberg really made NamesDB.
I looked at the malformed certificate and said “I’m not stepping past this point”.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here. I’ve written code that is still used by SWIFT to this day. Does that make me a banker apologist? (Also which of approximately 10,000 projects named NamesDB?)
The certificate isn’t “malformed” it’s just not signed by one of the holy approved certificate authorities.
Allow me to rephrase.
I looked at the dodgy certificate and said “I’m not stepping past this point”.
You certainly didn’t miss anything, but the certificate isn’t any more dodgy than that of any other site.
Self-signed certificates are too silly to bother with. Might as well go straight http if you’re going to go self-signed.
A CA-signed cert reduces the chance of a bad actor between me and the target site. A self-signed cert opens the door to trivial MitM attacks.
A CA-signed cert reduces the chance of a bad actor between me and the target site.
Because bad actors that can hijack your traffic are unable to get a fake certificate signed?!
A self-signed cert opens the door to trivial MitM attacks.
How would that be?
I been using DDG for a couple of years now and while a anecdote I can assure you: the data they sell can easily be correlated by tracking companies. It’s just a matterr of having the full picture or not. But if your behavior is the same it’s easily correlatable. Also I don’t trust their onion website. Besides all your searches is going to Microsoft(Bing).
This article was “it” for me. No more DGG for me.
yeah i heard Ryan or Noah from Destination Linux is running SearchX. guess ima try it
