What PRIVACY RESPECTING search engine do you use?
DDG? startpage? something else?
I've used DuckDuckGo for some time, but since I've seen people putting their privacy claims into question, I was wondering if it really was untrustworthy / if there are better search engine alternatives.
ddg for the bangs
searx.me for better search results
(((Weinberg)))
searx is best privacy wise but i use startpage because ive had some issues with several searx instances not working when i really needed it
ddg is a meme, owner literally had a business before where he sold data
I use Startpage as it's the one I was introduced to first. I have to ask though, what's the difference between Startpage, IxQuick, and Searx?
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searx is open source and more decentralized, pulls results from lots of different engines you can choose
startpage pulls results from google while masking you
ixquick is an independent engine with its own results
Baidu.
Ok so he is a smart business man. Thanks switching to ddg.
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Ecosia.
reddit.com
>It's Data Privacy Day 2018! I'm the Founder & CEO of DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company, here to answer questions about privacy, with other DuckDuckGo staff. Ask Us Anything!
I don't know if this helps but it's the one time I could ever post this, so here.
greater safety in numbers me thinks. google might record everything, but everyone uses it. less likely you'd get singled out.
if you use something more niche with a smaller userbase, youre statistically more likely to get fucked.
Until a school shooter's ISP reveals he liked dolphin porn, making you higher priority to observe since that's another thing you share in common with school shooters.
I've seen some TV ads for Qwant some months ago. I might give it a try.
>PRIVACY RESPECTING
FuckFuckNo
Is there even theoretically a way to prove that they aren't bending your privacy over the bin for a quickie? Even if the code is open source, what's the hardware angle?
How do they intend to make money long term? It can't seriously be "randomly display ads and hope one in one billion people sees something relevant", the botnet will murder them in metrics and thus funding.
duckduckgo is host on amazon server in US, so US gouv can just ask amazon for the data
I use qwant.com wich is hosted on EU server, here in EU we care a lot more about privacy and freedom
Ddg lite
>here in EU we care a lot more about privacy and freedom
>say anything about brown people, get you and your property fucko'd
>say anything about your nation's government, get you and your property fucko'd
>say anything about {the Jews, women, meme area of concern of the week}, get you and your property fucko'd
>talk about getting fucko'd, get you and your property fucko'd
>say anything about your nation's government, get you and your property fucko'd
haha you don't live in France, it's a national sport here to say shit about our current government
>no proof
>implying the EU is worse than the US for privacy
the only things right here is about the jews
other else in my country if you want to say anythings about africans or women you'll be sure to get invited on any TV show
Thank you for the advice.
>say anything about your nation's government, get you and your property fucko'd
Idea that authority can be questioned and probably should be came from Europe, you uneducated swine.
People have been bag mouthing their governments since the beginning of time you fucking clown
>freedom is saying shits about some peoples in the goal they got less freedom
ahah
>muh european freedom and privacy
Bull shit. European ISPs suck ass when it comes to privacy, they've backdoors in all routers/modems/switches and they collect literally EVERYTHING that passes on their backbone, because it's mandatory by law in majority of European countries, besides, if you lurked you would know that there're censorship laws like in Germany and Britain that make possible for anyone to sue you for posting politically incorrect statements and ISPs are forced by law to give the authorities your IP, also France and Germany are the worst countries when it comes to hosting p2p-related stuff, there're many associations that don't even need to use legal means, they just send an email to your ISP and your ISP will give them your name and address with no second thoughts, because the ISPs are simply that bad and only care about themselves, not the customers.
I know this for experience as someone who ran a download site for years and had to change ISP a dozen times, luckily I never gave a real name. Users in my site's forum would often report getting letters from anti-p2p associations too, one guy from Germany I remember well even got fined like 800 euros for downloading some One Piece episode, not even a dubbed one.
>b-but search engines use SSL
Needless to say, authorities can request the SSL encryption keys from ISPs and they will give everything promptly, sometimes they don't even bother changing keys after exposing them because they're incompetent fucks.
memelords in Sup Forums hate DDG, but actually serious people still recommend it, like privacytools.io
>ctrl+f ssl
>mfw 1 result
Nobody even asked if ddg would be forced to hand their SSL keys over, in case authorities asked them to do so.
Why is reddit so fucking pathetic and incompetent all the fucking time? what an useless shitty site.
I'm not doing anything illegal so why should I care about privacy?
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French here, can confirm. It's basically engrained in our culture at this point
DDG has always been shit and they've always been collecting your data. Don't fall for the lies.
Good point, I'll be over tomorrow morning to install some security cameras in your house to spy on you with. If you aren't doing anything illegal you shouldn't mind right?
>cuckcuckno
DDG is just shitty. trying to add boolean to querys and it just doesnt give a fuck. sp gives me much better results, with better searching options/boolean capable. ive been using ddg for the past 2 years and im fed up
nothing competes with google for performance and the best other companies can offer is that i should blindly trust them to respect my privacy.
is there an actually compelling argument to not use google? maybe when you need to do searches with non-standard characters, I've found some other search engines will perform better in those cases - but that's a small portion of searches.
proof?
you know the argument already. if you dont find it compelling, then theres nothing to do.
>searx.me
don't
use the random one instead
searxes.danwin1210.me
Startpage is IxQuick
Startpage desu
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>smart business man
(((man)))
Searx > Qwant > DuckDuckGo > anything else
StartPage depends on Google and is slow as fuck.
>less likely you'd get singled out.
This is absolutely false.
is searx even safe?
the 5. link is something about torrrr
just the botnet. the duck search shows ads and other unrelated shit instead of what i want.
>is searx even safe?
make your own instance if you don't trust other people
what does this mean? like programming and stuff?
srry i am a newfag
Nah just hosting
ddg is OK for simple things but it's started doing the shit where it thinks it knows better than you what you meant to type(and it's TERRIBLE at guessing.)
The image search is also worthless, 1 strip at the top of the screen or a very limited gallery depending on what it feels like
I switched to DDG for privacy, but now I mostly use it because of the bangs.
I use Searx when I can but sometimes it doesn't work and I have to resort to google
where does the data come from? does it scrape shit like google or is there some premade database for it?
What are the most useful bangs you've found?
!g
>duckduckgo.com
>A mysterious startup appears out of the blue...
>A duck in a bowtie, run by a Jew.
>He promises privacy, to respect your space.
>But did you take note of the methods in place?
>A company US, your privacy sworn
>In 2010 markets Tor service (for your porn)
>Year later it's mentioned in Time Magazine
>"[it's] like early Google", the author did preen.
>"We do not track you!", the Duck says as you choose...
>Just remember: he's tracking the search terms you use,
>and the location data,
>though not your IP, (wink)
>but they get ads from Bing,
>don't you think that they see?
>Hosting their servers, guess who? Amazon!
>Do you trust their cloud, are you a moron?
>Now there's auto-suggestions.
>Think, how does that work?
>You trust that you're safe?
>I prescribe you more lurk.
>You hopped off of Google, privacy was the plan,
>but you've jumped out of the fire and into the pan.
This was my understanding. Can anyone confirm this? How do we know all these aren't just honeypots?
>Searx is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services.
Basically it caches the botnet
Jolly good rhyme, m8
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Woah! Bin those ideas bruh
This.
Sometimes goolag thinks it knows you better than it does and fucks your personal search results.
It also sucks for anything it intentionally tries to censor - basically any other search engine is better for piracy and porn.
I use cuckcuckgo and searx because they unironically give me better search results.
Startpage and Ixquick are owned by the same group. Their own search engine, Ixquick, is being phsed out as far as I'm aware since their Google proxy service, Startpage, is much more popular. It's a shame since Ixquick is superior in my opinion. It gives you links to 8ch and TRS radio and a ton of other sites banned from Google, but still gives you most other Google entries alongside.