I use DuckDuckGo on some of my machines and Ecosia ( https://info.ecosia.org/about which is a non-profit based on Microsoft's "bing" search engine that takes its advertising revenue and - supposedly - uses it to fund planting trees).
What I really want to see is something like Yacy ( a distributed, decentralized, open source search engine ) https://yacy.net/en/index.html not suck.
In the end, its still proprietary- what is there to say they don't silently start selling us out? I continue to only trust searx instances hosted by people I know, because that's the only way to be sure.
DDG promises to be more private but since when should we trust capitalists?
Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
edmund_the_destroyer wrote
I use DuckDuckGo on some of my machines and Ecosia ( https://info.ecosia.org/about which is a non-profit based on Microsoft's "bing" search engine that takes its advertising revenue and - supposedly - uses it to fund planting trees).
What I really want to see is something like Yacy ( a distributed, decentralized, open source search engine ) https://yacy.net/en/index.html not suck.