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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.

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DuckDuckGo ['s browser] Isn’t as Private as You Thought (www.reviewgeek.com)

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

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[–] donaloc@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (7 children)

What is the best alternative?

[–] SrEstegosaurio@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Selfhosted Searx instance.

[–] 0therbit5@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think also this is the best alternative i switch to this few months ago but also searchEncrypt don't look bad. I advise to everyone always to do your own research

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

I didn't know the alternative that you mentioned. Thanks for the heads up, I'll look it up. (:

[–] XpeeN@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But the default behaviour is to expose the server's IP to the actual search engines, do you use VPN or something at the server side?

[–] Fissionami@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Searx as of now. You can also check out Whoogle

[–] Tryp@fuckreddit.tryp.digital 8 points 2 years ago

For your research https://www.searchenginemap.com/

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

These all work great for me:

qwant.com

startpage.nl

ecosia.org

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

For ease of use, StartPage and Mojeek. Brave search seems interesting, too, but I'm pretty skeptical of Brave in general. Also, DDG's web search is not a part of this, so it's still tracker-free. Just the Android app sucks now; that said, I can see why many not feel comfortable using it anymore even still.

For max privacy, other people are right about Searx, self-hosted ideally.