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[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Brave Search fully using their own index since April 27, 2023. But they refuse to identify their crawler and rely on googlebot if sites want to be excluded. Also their search API monetization of possible copyrighted content while understandable is a bit doubious due to their public stance on transparency.

StartPage also blocks VPN usage.

DuckDuckGo by their own admission now re-rank "trusted" sites to the top when it comes to what they clasify as"misinformation" so calling their "censorship" mild is huge understatement.

[-] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

StartPage also blocks VPN usage.

Ancedotal but Startpage works perfectly fine with VPN for me. Certainly better than Google, which works but requires a lot of annoying captchas.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I used Startpage for a long time, and I'm perpetually connected to VPN on both my PC and my phone (different nodes at different times)

Never had a problem with my VPN

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