• auth@lemmy.ml
    12·
    1 year ago

    How can a privacy-focused search engine block Tor? You probably should remove those.

    • nof4n@lemmy.mlOP
      02·
      1 year ago

      I should have specify, that they don’t block only tor. They block malicious traffic.

        • beefcat@kbin.social
          4·
          1 year ago

          If 94% of traffic from a given source is malicious, and I don’t have a good way of differentiating the 6% that is good, I might just end up blocking 100% to keep my site stable.

          Just another example of bad actors making it so we can’t have nice things.

  • citytree@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Why is Ecosia on the list?

    Quoting from tosdr.org:

    • This service can view your browser history
    • This service may collect, use, and share location data
    • This service allows tracking via third-party cookies for purposes including targeted advertising
    • This service tracks which web page referred you to it
    • Your personal data is given to third parties

    Doesn’t look privacy-respecting.

  • janAkali@lemmy.one
    2·
    1 year ago

    I would remove Qwant from this list, because they share your data with Bing, their privacy policy have contradicting statements and include:

    Qwant may transfer to this partner the following pseudonymous data related to your query:
    – The keywords of the search;
    – Information about the browser you are using (the User Agent);
    – The first three bytes of your IP address;
    – The approximate geographical area from which the search originated, at the level of a region or city;
    – The salt hash generated from your IP address, your User Agent and a salt that changes at the latest every 3 months;
    – A random token generated by Qwant.

    …Qwant may also collect and transfer to this partner your full IP address.
    This processing is in the legitimate interest of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited (article 6.1.f) to secure and make its services more reliable.

    This data is transferred to this partner within the European Union, and may be retained in accordance with Bing’s Privacy Policy for a maximum period of 18 months.

    Please, also review this if you plan to use qwant:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Controversies

  • Bernard Marx@lemmy.peoplever.se
    1·
    9 months ago

    As others have stated, you are mixing search engines with metasearch engines here. If you employ browser isolation and obscure your IP address, you can be anonymous with any engine.

    Yacy has potential, and I run an instance. It relies on us operators to index sites. You will find results to be incomplete in many areas, but it can be great for researching controversial topics. When I want uncensored and not manipulated results, I also use Yandex.com and Brave.

  • kixik@lemmy.ml
    21·
    1 year ago

    searx and searxng are not search engines, and searx is more private (searxng collects info from users, which searx never wanted to). AFAIK duckduckgo is neither a search engine on its own, it uses blink…

      • 0xCAFe@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        Mojeek has it’s own index. DuckDuckGo, Qwant and Brave have a partial index mixed with meta search results.

          • Pumpkin@sh.itjust.works
            0·
            1 year ago

            Just looked it up since I was sure I had read they had their own. On their wikipedia article it says:

            In its early days on the Internet, the Qwant search engine relied on Bing to provide more relevant results. In 2016, Qwant claimed to be increasingly using its own results from its own exploration robots. It is still at the status of hybrid engine.[89] In 2020, Qwant claimed to have exceeded 50% of independent results for web searches, and 70% for all researchs

            so I guess it’s both bing and their own thing.

            • nof4n@lemmy.mlOP
              11·
              1 year ago

              So, ddg and brave also have own indices. But i dont think, that it is matter, anyway they send data to 3rd party services.

  • Freeman@lemmy.pub
    1·
    1 year ago

    One to add is Kagi.

    It’s paid only. They literally don’t track searches (they may allow history in the future).

    You need a login and email to sign up but the email can be fake (I probably wouldn’t reccomend that)

    And if you do a lot of programming it’s honestly better than some mentioned.

    Again it’s paid because there’s no ads. You are literally supporting the product and devs.

    It does have bangs like DDg. You can even exclude domains from being returned if you want. And each result gives you things like trackers etc.

    It’s quite nice. I moved off DDG several months ago and haven’t looked back.

    Note: it’s not necessarily cheap, buts it’s been a solid value add for me. I do a lot of research and searching for work.

  • beefcat@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    kagi is privacy focused (as is their browser, Orion). However, search is not free and requires a subscription.

    For me, it’s the first search engine to actually replace Google. The results are a lot more relevant than sites like DuckDuckGo. !g used to be a daily thing for me, but I can count on one hand the number times I’ve invoked it in the last three months.

  • Mikelius@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    Man I loved duckduckgo until they stopped working with DarkReader about a month ago. So now every time I do a search, I’m blinded by a large white screen lol. Even setting their dark theme option doesn’t persist between sessions (for me) so I had to move on… Brave was what I went to but I’m not enjoying it too much. Thanks for this list, it gives me some other options to look into if I end up not liking Leta 👀

  • TheElectroness@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    I wish more of them would support duckduckgo’s bang system, brave seems to, but that’s about it. Idealogically I find the idea of using brave troublesome because of a) Eich’s transphobia, and b) the cryptobro factor (although I don’t think the search page has an embedded miner, at least not from the cursory glance I took