So, I just searched Vids, with safe search set to the strictest option, on DDG, Startpage, Brave Search, Google, and Bing. DDG and Bing did bring up NSFW results within 2/3 pages and were nigh on identical as Bing is where DDG sources it’s search results from. Startpage and Google did not bring up any NSFW results within at least the first 5 pages, and were again, nigh on identical due to Startpage getting it’s results from Google. Brave Search did not return any NSFW results within at least the first 5 pages and has it’s own crawler so the results are fully independent. You can also filter Brave to use Google as a search front end as well. I’m not sure what the exact issue is here, Bing has been known to have worse results than other engines for a long time and DDG is using the inferior product for their results.
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