Kagi at the moment. Just feels right to pay for incredibly useful services with money instead of privacy
I totally agree, although information itself should be freely accessible for everyone. Nice topic for a discussion though!
Well it still is, the web is open to be indexed.
Now paying for a service which has its own index sounds fine, but I personally don't trust this model if the code isn't open source as well (which kind of ties back into freely accessible information), though I can see it being hard to monetize if anyone can host their own version, unless the hardware infrastructure needed was really expensive
Currently trying out Kagi, still on the fence. Boy am I blowing through the trial searches though.
Whats the payment methods like?
There are a lot of options: Bitcoin & Bitcoin lightning via opennode + Paypal, Venmo, iDeal, giropay, & stripe.
Personally I converted some XMR to BTC then paid with that (using a single-use wallet)
Both: I use SearXNG!
SearX(NG)
Ever since Snowden I switched to DDG. You start to get used to one search engine vs the other. So after a bit DDG was just superior to me.
Searx
Seconded.
What's the reason for picking Searx over DDG? Do they offer better privacy? Query customizability?
I suggest searching the topic online I'm not an expert but I guess that searx makes the researches for you and comunicate the answers back ... so it's at least adding a step in between... Also I heard that DDG was taking a less open and clear politic about privacy witch definitely did help me chose to switch to searx
You mean lesser evil? ddg
ddg is evil?
They have their fair share of questionable practices. Most prominent was being in the bed with Micro$$oft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Controversies
I think they messed with search result ranking as well.
I don't know about evil, but my results have been filled with AI generated crap sites lately. I don't know if others are doing any better filtering them out, but it is making me think to look elsewhere besides ddg
Startpage
Mine is !g on DuckDuckGo
Does that actually enhance privacy at all? Or is it basically the same as using Google?
Same as using Google
Isn't it worse? Now two search engines know what you are searching for
MetaGer for me, run by a non profit and you can choose to pay for search results to be ad-free and get more search options.
DDG. I used Searxng selfhosted for a while but it was a bit too slow with its results.
Whoogle.
SearX, Whoogle, sometimes Startpage and Brave
Ddg and Kagi
Is there a lawsuit?
The duck, Chuck, because it doesn't suck.
Brave Search
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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