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Any duck duck go alternative that is better in privacy and security ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by THEDAEMON@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is there a better alternative or is DDG still the best ? Would appreciate if the search ingine came with firefox and i don't have to jump through hoops to use it. I moved the post from ask lemmy to here .

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[–] philo@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What's wrong with startpage.com?

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

They were bought by an advertising company, which is a bit sketchy.

[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

They block Tor/VPNs.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Proton user here, never had a problem with that.

The only problem is that apparently startpage was purchased by an advertising company, which seems like an awful match.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

I'm on a VPN (Mullvad) and not blocked by Startpage.

[–] tutus@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They blocked my IP Vanish VPN which is why I moved away from them to Kagi.

Given the other comments about VPN's it sounds like it's not consistent.

[–] philo@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

I use a VPN. I'm not blockes. Do you mean they only block the VPN's on TOR network? I wonder why they do that?