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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.

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submitted 1 year ago by AlbyEvent@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I was using DuckDuckGo for some time, but heard that there are better alternatives. I'm confused, because DDG is used by default in TOR browser, and other privacy respecting browsers (ex. Librewolf). Can you guys recommend any other search engine, and tell me why u recommend it?

Or, is DDG enough?

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[–] Cinnamon3431@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've heard of Startpage (which appears to be a frontend for Google results), but I personally like Brave Search more (visually, also you have !bangs for quickly searching wikipedia, ddg or startpage when you need it). I heard ecosia should be private, buy I've been ciritical and didn't look into it yet, because its main focus appears to be planting trees.

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Brave search results are good, way better than DDG's for me. Good work, Brave team!

[–] AlbyEvent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've looked into ecosia and they store IPs for a week to "protect ourselves from spammers". They encrypt your searches, use Bing for results and ads, but they filter the "annoying" ones. I think they are pretty good overall.

[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow I've been using Brave search for a while now and had no idea bangs were a thing. It'd be nice if there was more ways to showcase them visually to help discover this nifty feature

[–] Cinnamon3431@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I came from ddg, so I just assumed / tried and they worked :D