I don’t like how Startpage’s owner owns a bunch of legacy search engine URL’s (such as webcrawler and dogpile) and just serves the seemingly same engine on all of them.
(Also yes, WebCrawler used to be a search engine, before the practice of “crawling the web” came to apply to what all search engines do. Pretty neat history!)
About that …
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blocking-limit/
That’s DDG’s browser, though, not the search engine (which is what we were talking about).
And clearly they can’t be trusted. How you gonna confirm that they don’t make similar carveouts with their website?
Do you have a better search engine?
Ecosia, SearXNG, Startpage*, Presearch
A good starting point to discover new search engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
*I have many doubts about startpage privacy, I didn’t bother search tho
I don’t like how Startpage’s owner owns a bunch of legacy search engine URL’s (such as webcrawler and dogpile) and just serves the seemingly same engine on all of them.
System1
(Also yes, WebCrawler used to be a search engine, before the practice of “crawling the web” came to apply to what all search engines do. Pretty neat history!)
Do you?
No, I don’t. That’s why I’m using DDG.
Have fun being tracked my Microsoft, then.