Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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If it has anything to do with the ghostery addon that was bought by ad company, keep away from it
Trust them and they will F. You,
I don't trust not even my shadow in the web, but one thing is an online service, like a search engine, and another an installed app.
A search engine is a perfect tool to track though.
You click or not etc. And data are correlated etc.
Another independent search company with its own index is great. Repackaging Bing and Google isn’t good enough. I’d be cautious with their privacy claims though.
looking at it it would seem to be getting results via the brave search api
With own Index Andisearch (using AI) and SSuite Groot Search, you can also use a meta search like E-Tools, it use several search engines which you can select.
Does it detect the paywalls and cookie walls too?
I don't use pages with paywalls which I can`t skip (very few), cookie walls don't exist for me, they are skipped all.
Is this service paid? If not, how are they making any money? All I can think of is a) selling users data (and lying) b) selling spots in search results, which means they'll be overrun with malicious links or other useless garbage. I don't believe they're just hosting a search engine out of the kindness of their hearts (: