• 4dpuzzle
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          41 year ago

          These days, paying doesn’t guarantee your exclusion from being the product. The only way to guarantee privacy is to design it into the product.

        • Howdy
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          181 year ago

          If it works for you… I agree with the general sentiment of “if its free you are the product”. However, I see kagi come up so often around here that I feel like it’s some astro turfing. I tried it and was not impressed. SearXNG is by far the best search engine I’ve used in a long time and the best part is I am hosting it locally on my PC, traffic is going out a VPN. You get the privacy and the best results possible since its a meta engine using many different engines.

            • Howdy
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              21 year ago

              Never used brave, I think DDG is actually a pretty decent search engine overall. I use it as my backup to searxng and used it primarily for years now before switching to searxng.

          • Karyoplasma
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            51 year ago

            Didn’t Google nuke SearX? Or did they only nuke public instances?

            • Howdy
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              61 year ago

              Google results work fine for me on my home instance:

            • @herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
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              51 year ago

              If so, I wonder if that timeline lines up with when I was trying SearX. For the first few days I was blown away by the results, and then suddenly they became absolute garbage. I ended up switching back to DDG.

        • @rasakaf679@lemmy.ml
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          141 year ago

          If you are naive enough to believe that they are not collecting your data. Good for you and your peace of mind.