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Ghostery Private Search (www.ghostery.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

A privacy focused search engine without logs or trackers, own index and above all, the special feature to show in the search result the ads, trackers and other crap waiting for us in every listed page.

Clicking in the icon marked with the arrow for an complete analytic in whotracks.me

To insert the search engine in the browser

https://ghosterysearch.com/search?q=%s

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[–] JackSkellington 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If it has anything to do with the ghostery addon that was bought by ad company, keep away from it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Trust them and they will F. You,

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

A search engine is a perfect tool to track though.
You click or not etc. And data are correlated etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

looking at it it would seem to be getting results via the brave search api

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does it detect the paywalls and cookie walls too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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 (: