Is Qwant still good privacy wise? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I use Qwant as my default search engine because I thought it was more respectful of my privacy than Google or Bing and DuckDuckGo is not giving so good results in my country (for localization related searches).

I noticed that the engine was removed from the default engines for URL bar in latest IronFox version. So I searched a bit about why so, and found this issue in their tracker : https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/47.

What to think about this ? The message from ironfox dev seems clear but qwant seems to claim that the shared data are anonymized.

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[-] tyler@programming.dev -1 points 2 months ago

If you care about utmost privacy, you probably want to use Kagi, then generate privacy tokens and move them to a different computer and search from there. It’s pretty much guaranteed privacy. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html

Kagi is also just the best search engine around at this point, at least that I’ve found. Worth paying for privacy in my opinion.

[-] Yesbutnotreally@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not sure if making searches from a registered account is the way to go for people who “care about utmost privacy”

You probably want to use one of the ones that lets you search without registering.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/#recommended-providers

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/kagi-search-engine/14172/95

[-] piyuv@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Tech companies touting privacy with “trust us bro” slogan

[-] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

Did you read the link about privacy pass? I’m guessing not since you think that your searches are somehow tracked with that.

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