Kagi is a search engine where you just simply pay with money rather than being instrumentalised in all kinds of awful ways in order to make the operator money.
I was very sceptical at first too. I highly recommend to simply try using it with the gratis 100 searches. That lasted me for a few days and I quickly noticed what there is to love about it.
It's the best (and to my knowledge only) search engine money can buy.