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?

  • mrmisses@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Opera (with it’s free VPN, I know, I’m the product, but it gets around porn restrictions since I live in a shithole state/country)

    Firefox for regular browsing

    • zerozaku@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      You can easily get around your country’s restrictions using private DNS. Go to your browser, search for secure DNS and choose any provider, preferably anything that’s privacy-focused.

      And btw move away from every Opera product.