Daily reminder that

• Brave's CEO donates to homophobic organizations and
• Brave is connected to the BAT pay-to-surf scam

Don't use Brave.

Worth noting about Startpage: they're part of System1, an American advertising/marketing company. Sytem1 claims that privacy is one of the biggest focuses though. Make of that what you will.

Pretty weak chart to not even include "I care most about porn search"

Not a search engine, but last week I learned of the European Open Websearch project, which builds a new free and open search index. It should already be ready to try out. Hopefully we will see some search engines implementing this soon.

stop promoting brave. oh my god it's 2025 how good is their propaganda... they were never cool.

I wish Kagi was not American. I was pretty happy with it until America became a thread

For now I’ll stick with SearXNG, it’s among the first things I get up and running when I distro hop, but I’m glad there are other non-US options to try.

I've been happy with DDG for so long. Uuugh.

I really wish Kagi wasn't American. Kagi is such a good product, and I'd be willing to pay for it, but in no universe am I willing to pump more money into silicon valley.

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

They're basically all compromised in one way or another. 😞

Thanks. This I nice little guide, easy to suss and helps me figure my priorities.

I changed to Ecosia when I last saw this chart. It's working really well and is my main search engine across all my devices now.

But now I'm considering moving to Mojeek if that's better for privacy.

Can't wait to get some news about Qwant and Ecosia new index

I recommend Ecosia!

Very strange to put Kagi as “less private” when it’s the only non-self-hosted option that allows for completely private searches with their Privacy Pass tokens. You can access them with Tor, pay with crypto (not really that private though), and sign up with a fake email. https://kagi.com/privacy#anonymity

I really wish Qwant would add the ability for me to Seach "1 eur to usd" and just get the results.

Along with "tsla" and "23 *3" and just get results.

Is there something like Weebly from Europe?

Does YaCy & Wiby count too ?

Anyone noticed google brought back forum seaching again? I left google search way back just because that feature went away.

Either way I can't stand the AI answers I can't turn off.

This is a bit like Trumps tariffs, we need to cut everything off but there is no real alternative services. According this infograph, Startpage should be politically correct choice..

where is duckduckgo on this chart?

How about just NOT supporting companies? Having an European company control what gets shown to you is not much of an improvement over having an American one do it...

There are decentralized search engines like SearXNG