I used to be a part of the DuckDuckGo hype train until I found out they did actually track data (not an issue to me personally, but it betrayed their key marketing point), as used to be demonstrable if you had a slow internet and hovered your cursor over a link (it would show the tracking data loading). It was the one thing separating them from Ecosia, and I decided to join the Ecosia hype train, even if their own promises are themselves highly exaggerated. Every effort to do what Ecosia promises, even failed efforts, are appreciable.
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What about metasearch engines/ search aggregators?
You want a free search, Brave. Don't like brave, then qwant. I use Kagi. It costs money but it is great.
Kagi if you're willing to pay. Otherwise tryaS Searx instance.
Brave search is also really good now
brave is pretty widely disliked by people (including me) for it's CEO's homophobia. That's probably why you're being down voted.
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I am generally switching between Google and duck duck go on Firefox. When Google gives shitty results (which is frequently) I switch over to ddg.
I use startpage.com on desktop. They provide Google results (sort of like DDG uses Bing results) so it’s not some autonomous magic privacy thing but it’s what I want from a search engine.
It reminds me of Google pre-enshittification.
Owned now by a marketing company. I've been using it for many years and never had my results noticeable affect my advertising incoming.
It's a proxy for Google which is why I use it. I have really started to use ChatGPT in anger yet as the trivial don't need it.
I'm not connected to them in any way.