Kagi at the moment. Just feels right to pay for incredibly useful services with money instead of privacy
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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I totally agree, although information itself should be freely accessible for everyone. Nice topic for a discussion though!
Well it still is, the web is open to be indexed.
Now paying for a service which has its own index sounds fine, but I personally don't trust this model if the code isn't open source as well (which kind of ties back into freely accessible information), though I can see it being hard to monetize if anyone can host their own version, unless the hardware infrastructure needed was really expensive
Currently trying out Kagi, still on the fence. Boy am I blowing through the trial searches though.
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Both: I use SearXNG!
SearX(NG)
Ever since Snowden I switched to DDG. You start to get used to one search engine vs the other. So after a bit DDG was just superior to me.
You mean lesser evil? ddg
ddg is evil?
Sadly yes... But lesser and lesser
They have their fair share of questionable practices. Most prominent was being in the bed with Micro$$oft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Controversies
I think they messed with search result ranking as well.
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Mullvad Leta, although i'm pondering about getting kagi
Mine is !g on DuckDuckGo
Does that actually enhance privacy at all? Or is it basically the same as using Google?
Same as using Google
Isn't it worse? Now two search engines know what you are searching for
Somewhat, because you’re proxying your searches through ddg, just like with startpage.
Edit: Apparently I'm mistaken, you are accessing google directly with DDG, unlike with startpage where your query goes through them first. I'm a startpage user so I wasn't really aware of how DDG does their bangs.
It isn't like Startpage at all. You are still accessing Google from your PC and IP.
Oh I didn't know that. Thanks for correcting me, I'll update my comment.
No problem! Basically using any bang on DDG goes to that actual webpage, so if you need Google, it's better to use !s than !g.
MetaGer for me, run by a non profit and you can choose to pay for search results to be ad-free and get more search options.
DDG. I used Searxng selfhosted for a while but it was a bit too slow with its results.
Whoogle.
Ddg and Kagi
Is there a lawsuit?
SearX, Whoogle, sometimes Startpage and Brave
The duck, Chuck, because it doesn't suck.
Neither. Ecosia.
Their updated privacy policy keeps a lot of data and shares with bing. Not good.
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