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What's your favorite private browser and/or search engine? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Noahh@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I really like the Librewolf browser and DuckDuckGo search engine and mobile browser. The Iceraven browser on mobile is also quite nice.

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[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish qwant wouldn't have so many problems. It could be a really good search engine

[–] testingthis@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there was something quirky with lite.qwant.com results that made it unusable... Will want to check on it again soon

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Not only that

springer holds a share of qwant and springer is a rubbish company.
qwant on mobile shows you the mobile sites of the search results instead of the "real" website. I think that's a tiny but important difference.
qwant doesn't show you the protocol, i.e. http, ftp, etc. And hides SSL encryption of sites.
qwant forces you to choose a country and only serves higher income countries. Qwant shows you different results in different countries. It's not just an english or french web, it's a canadian french, frensh frensh, etc. Web.