Im a little sketched out by DuckDuckGo lately tbh. Now yes, clearly you could just use Tor + the DuckDuckGo onion link and be fine, but still, you can't trust anything these days.
🚩 Some red flags:
Uses Bing API. (Owned by Microsoft)
Is in USA. (20 Paoli Pike, Paoli, PA 19301)
They have violated their privacy policy in the past.
Collects "anonymous" analytics about you using tracking pixels.
Some Sources:
https://duckduckgo.com/about
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/duckduckgo.html
https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-Bing-API-used-by-DuckDuckGo
@glitcher32 there's a good FOSS search engine I used to that's really good I just can't remember the name of it 🏧😆
@volpit @Wetrix The one with the best privacy seems to be https://swisscows.com/
"We do not collect any of our visitors’ personal information. None whatsoever. When using Swisscows neither your IP address is recorded nor is the browser you are using (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) collected. No analyses are made, which operating system our users use (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.); your search are not recorded either."
Read full here: https://swisscows.com/en/privacy
(was to long)
@glitcher32 @volpit @Wetrix I would argue that Searx.me is the best search engine if you are worried about privacy.
@glitcher32 Yeah, I find Searx.me to have some odd issues that keep it from being my go-to. If you have to have the most private search engine though...
Just learned of Jive Search today 🤔 Giving that a try.