I still use DDG (for search, none of the other bs they’ve been adding) because they are definitely better than Google or Bing. Is there a better alternative?
Considering DDG’s privacy claims cannot be independently verified (and their MS tracking fiasco 2 years ago) they should be treated with the same level of caution that Startpage gets.
Funny how the bare HTML makes this feel weirdly personal. Maybe I should get around to making the shitty personal website I always wanted to make fifteen years ago.
I still use DDG (for search, none of the other bs they’ve been adding) because they are definitely better than Google or Bing. Is there a better alternative?
Currently using and testing SearXNG
https://github.com/searxng/searxng
–//–
The list of public instances to connect to and use is here
https://searx.space/
Startpage is pretty good.
wasn’t it bought by an advertising company?
Considering DDG’s privacy claims cannot be independently verified (and their MS tracking fiasco 2 years ago) they should be treated with the same level of caution that Startpage gets.
but the difference between DDG and startpage is that DDG allows connections through Tor and VPN, while startpage doesn’t. isn’t it suspicious ?
https://www.qwant.com/
Shares your IP and search query (according to them separately) with Microsoft.
So does DDG
For searches, Kagi.
Edit: I guess Kagi sucks. But I still prefer their search results over DDG.
https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
Funny how the bare HTML makes this feel weirdly personal. Maybe I should get around to making the shitty personal website I always wanted to make fifteen years ago.
You really should. https://indieweb.org has a lot of resources.