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.
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I have to say I used Random Searx a lot, startpage as Backup. And as VPNs are getting mainstream, it gets a pain in the ass. Mullvad Leta sucks too kinda. Now I use duckduckgo alone and actually never need my specially configured SearXNG search providers, although useful.
I have to say, I use a lot of search engines. Using the "Add custom search" Addon on Firefox you can easily add any URL containing a search word to your browser.
I maintain some lists of search engines that need updating.
I use MetaGer as my daily driver and you.com for deeper niche searches
I'm using Startpage, and I also have a self-hosted Adguard DNS on my network so that helps a bit too.
As main search, among others, I use Andisearch, it's an AI search assistant, with own lenguage model and one of the most private search engine. own reader mode for websites in the search results, so you don't need to visit it, you also can watch YouTube and others sandboxed right in the search results, anonymous use, no ads, no tracking, no logs.
Easy add it to your search engine list in your browser
https://andisearch.com/?query=%s
tbh im not sure but if you want google results with safesearch try resulti
Maybe some will dislike , but i use yandex, i don't know why, but i get good results. I prefer to give them my info and not google
A random thought
Do we really want search engines ?
Or, do we want AI to tell us the answers to our questions?