Try Brave Search, Duckduckgo, Startpage, or Searxng. For more detail on these recommendation (that I definitely did not just steal), check out the Privacy Guides page, or The New Oil for a different, albeit overlapping, set of recommendations and take on search engines.

[–] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 35 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Best not to use brave since it's a front for crypto. Other's are okay

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 19 points 9 months ago

DuckDuckGo has recently become a not very useful search engine too, it still has way way better queries than Google though.

Going back usually shuffles the search results and after like 5 results there's just a bunch of random entries based on your geolocation.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 0 points 9 months ago

I disagree! It's best to not use Brave since it's a front for a homophobe.

[–] gogosempai@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

Avoid the browser but I've been using their search on Firefox. Really like the AI summarizer and the results are also good.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did the Privacy Guides drama ever get resolved re: PrivacyTools. I recall one was split off from the other over draaaamaaa.

[–] Daryl76679@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

I mean I guess. They aren't actively fighting or anything like that to my knowledge. I personally think the Privacy Guides is the better resource, because PrivacyTools has vpn recommendations like Nord and Surfshark with affiliate links that are not actively disclosed from my quick check.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

You mention brave but no mention of kagi? Kagi is way better than DDG too.