Startpage is owned by an ad-tech agency (System1). While Startpage might truly keep data private, it’s non-obvious why a System1, a publicly traded US company, would want an ownership stake in a “private search engine”. Though System1 alleges that they have no plans to tinker with Startpage, it’s u…

Example: Brave browser CEO apologizes for automatically adding affiliate links to cryptocurrency URLs | The Verge There’s a large number of other scandals as well.

[image] asanyan: My mum is back using Google and now isn’t open to try alternative search engines anymore Searx with google results ? [image] anon48875053: Brave Search, it uses its own index instead of relying on Google or Bing. Actually want to try it but too flashy. DuckDuckGo feel…

This is related to their browser and not their search engine.

[image] ikelatomig: DuckDuckGo feels just right. I tried using DDG a lot of times, but the results are just awful. Maybe I was using it wrong, don’t know why the results are so bad compared to Brave Search or Google.

My experience has been the opposite tbh. For me, Brave Search never gets me the results I am looking for.

[image] mastery3: I’m currently using SwissCows, as they’re the only decent Aren’t they the same company from Teleguard ?

I’ll check that out right now. Where’d you find that at? EDIT: Just realized that was a link. I still can’t access the source, because it’s paywalled.

Accessed it through the Internet Archive. Are there any search engines at this point that aren’t doing anything shady? Or are they all data brokers/undercover FBI agents? (other than Mojeek, and SearX for reasons)

[image] anon48875053: I tried using DDG a lot of times, but the results are just awful. I agree. For practically all my queries, Brave’s search engine has been superior to DuckDuckGo’s. When I find Brave’s results inadequate, I fallback to DuckDuckGo, which usually gives me decent results.

[image] anon94009837: My experience has been the opposite tbh. For me, Brave Search never gets me the results I am looking for. It is just personal preference. In my experience, both are fine, but Brave’s features like discussions are very useful for my use case, in addition to better results…

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