Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
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.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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This was particularly visible on far right subreddits where they began heavily recommending yandex. Because that makes sense. Swapping from a privacy-centric search engine to a literal Russian propaganda conveyor belt? Yeah, sure. No clue how many bit the bait.
Thanks for the context info. Saved me a search for it.
DDG is perfectly fine
I honestly like there ads sometimes. I sometimes need to find a product and I don't mind checking out some if the advertisers.
My only complaint is that it tries to customize results based on your previous searches. It doesn't do this in HTML mode so it must be there data collection from javascript
I bounce around a few public Sear instances, its working great for me
Kagi, but I hope it legit turns into a contest in a race to the top
I keep on hearing great things about them, but my broke ass doesn't want to pay. 😅
I'm more in the experimental phase with it. We shall see although I fully empathize with any cynicism. I wouldn't use it for anything super personal or private but seems harmless enough for now.
I'm fine with DuckDuckGoLite. If I really wanted to have granular control though, I'd spin up my own private searx instance.
Does DuckDuckGoLite display the same search results as DuckDuckGo? if so, I might aswell use regular DuckDuckGo
Remember you're writing an espionage political thriller, and that's why you have to research thoroughly about navigating the dark web, obtaining rare minerals on the black market, refining radioactive isotopes, and atomic / hydrogen bomb configurations like the tellar-ulam.
And you've got a massive case of writer's block right from the first word
I have found LibreX/LibreY to be quite good, as long as you use a stable instance
I am using metager, but am not sure what qualifies as 'best' as I did not do much comparison.
Whoogle and SearXNG
I’ve been using Whoogle lately but used Startpage for a while too
Kagi. But I use Whoogle public instance and pretty happy with it 🙂
I might start using Whoogle too, since Kagi is paid :)
If there were no problems with payment from Russia, then I would gladly pay for kagi. but unfortunately there is no such possibility due to sanctions 🙁
Can you get ahold of crypto? They take bitcoin and i pay for it using monero via trocador.app
what do you think ddg censors?
Kagi is quite possibly the least privacy friendly search engine out there. I swear there's astroturfing going on here, I don't know why anyone would pay for this, they're just falling for marketing.
Not to mention it just won't work in private browsing and all your queries are tied to a specific account which also has your personal information from your payments.
DuckDuckGo does not censor, that is misinformation and FUD. It's probably the best search engine currently for most things.
In Firefox, enter * in the URL bar.
Your own Bookmarks and Firefoxes search are the most private search engine. There are literally people googling "Google".
The Addon 404 Bookmarks is also really useful for finding dead Bookmarks
4get.ca, it's a metasearch engine, you get results from various search engines anonymously.