There is no privacy-respecting, respectable privacy engine currently. Even if you are willing to pay money for it.
YaCy is unusable for normal people, and arguably usable for datascience people.
Searx sometimes works, but uses commercial search engines, and you have to deploy your own instance, or rely on 3rd party.
DuckDuckGo is a choice of many, but they have deal-breaking issues:
- May 2022, they are allowing Microsoft to track your searches. They have an agreement signed with MS that requires them to deanonymize you to access Bing search queries.
- They do not offer a paid plan.
- Some accuse them of being the Amazon search engine
- They are registered in US jurisdiction, which are normally hostile to user privacy.
Please deliver a secure search engine. I'm willing to pay for it extra in addition to my existing Proton plan, even if you decide to fork YaCy or Searx, or provide some basic service - it's the respectability of the provider that matters, their technical expertise, and legal background.
There is no privacy-respecting, respectable privacy engine currently. Even if you are willing to pay money for it.
YaCy is unusable for normal people, and arguably usable for datascience people.
Searx sometimes works, but uses commercial search engines, and you have to deploy your own instance, or rely on 3rd party.
DuckDuckGo is a choice of many, but they have deal-breaking issues:
- May 2022, they are allowing Microsoft to track your searches. They have an agreement signed with MS that requires them to deanonymize you to access Bing search queries.
- They do not offer a paid plan.
- Some accuse them of being the Amazon search engine
- They are registered in US jurisdiction, which are normally hostile to user privacy.
Please deliver a secure search engine. I'm willing to pay for it extra in addition to my existing Proton plan, even if you decide to fork YaCy or Searx, or provide some basic service - it's the respectability of the provider that matters, their technical expertise, and legal background.