Any duck duck go alternative that is better in privacy and security ? (lemmy.ml)

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I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is there a better alternative or is DDG still the best ? Would appreciate if the search ingine came with firefox and i don't have to jump through hoops to use it. I moved the post from ask lemmy to here .And also i deleted the post from ask lemmy because i thought it wasn't the appropriate sub (i know should've thought of that before posting )

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[-] Jahuffine@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

For a while I was self hosting whoogle but it's been kind of problematic and gets rate limited very quickly. I have been looking at switching to searxng. For both of these you can find some hosted for the public but their security may not be as robust as a company like duck duck go would be. It's a shame too that duckduckgo does actually collect data and send it to Microsoft as part of their agreement in order to use bing as their backend.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 21 points 9 months ago

The data collection of DDG only regarded their browser, not the search engine.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

I've got my own whoogle instance and have never been rate-limited

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

I was self-hosting a whoogle instance but it stopped working and instead it would send me to google to accept cookies, so I nuked it.

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Running whoogle aswell and never been rate limited, but I did need to setup a horizontal pod autoscalaer on my deployment because it kept getting into a invalid state. Now kubernetes will just shoot the pod in the head and spin up another. Lol

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