Reannlegge comments on New to privacy and de-googling, why is DDG recommended over Brave?

New to privacy and de-googling, why is DDG recommended over Brave? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by AverageDummy@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I am sure there is a good reason for this. I am looking for alternatives to google, and these to be the ones that pop-up most often.

RESOLVED: I used up my 100 searches in kagi pretty quickly, and the experience was really nice. I am quite anti-subscription, so I won't continue using it. I eliminated brave from my search due to the crypto stuff and whatnot. I am now using mojeek, which gave me better results over DDG when searching for niche stuff. Also I like mojeeks interface a lot more.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 day ago (5 children)

I do not want to be vilified for saying this, so I will echo what everyone else seems to be suggesting of DDG being a good degoogled search engine.

When I started to degoogle, personally do not remember what I was using DDG and ecosia probably. I hear ecosia has jumped into the AI game which I think is icky for what they are trying to do.

I later started getting into home labbing. I am in no way suggesting that you should jump into that right now, this is a rather expensive lifestyle, it starts with one project and you think oh fun what can I replace next? So the search engine I use now is searXNG, which I have set to pull from Bing, wikiepedia, and a bunch of smaller engines. I am just trying to say there are options for you to look into in the future. Not right now you are just getting out of the Google ecosystem

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[–] Spite_By_Design_LLC@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

So the search engine I use now is searXNG

Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark.

Heh, just making a silly joke. As a home labber, I imagine you're well across YaCy, so am just name dropping it for the newbies. Yacy, Hister etc etc.

Answering the OP -

Personally, I find myself either going directly to the sites I want, using RSS feeds or (gasp!) using my local LLM agents with MCP adapters, with something like Exa to fetch the info I want (or directly via PubMed etc).

(these are raw CLI; I need to wire this up to XMPP very soon so I have something that's a little less "Haxor" for the rest of the family to use)

More and more, I am mirroring the stuff I need offline, so that I can point my pet clankers at my local files, Kiwix archives, Recoll etc and then just one-click them open.