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Firefox gang raise (lemmy.world)
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[-] callyral@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago

They need money somehow, making Google the default search engine is a source of income.

[-] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can always make startpage or ddg your default search engine anyways, both on android and desktop

[-] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Duckduckgo proxies bing search results (ober the api, they aren't chad scrapers) and is therefore is under the foot of microsoft. This has forced them to whitelist ms trackers in their privacy tools but I haven't heard anything bad about the search engine.

Startpage scrapes google results so isn't under anyones foot. It has had some controversy due to being bought by an ad company but they haven't seemed to do anything bad yet

In all, startpage is better than duckduckgo

[-] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Which search engine do you recommend?

[-] original_ish_name@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

I don't know

Maybe brave search?

[-] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think brave is privacy friendly at all

[-] RIP_Apollo@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago

Could you please explain why you don’t think Brave is privacy friendly?

I think Brave Search has a really good privacy policy.

Brave Search is designed to be private by default. We don’t collect personal information about you, your device or your searches. We also don’t transmit information to the web that could be used to profile you or track you or learn anything about you. Your searches are private to YOU.

It’s also worth noting that Brave has its own search index… as opposed to DuckDuckGo which uses Bing, and StartPage which uses Google.

Although admittedly this does mean that the search results from Brave Search isn’t the best at the moment. Hopefully this will improve with time.

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