In case anyone was wondering, Weinberg is a pushover with no constitution. I once asked him why #DuckDuckGo doesn't filter out privacy-abusing #Cloudflare sites & it triggered him. He had no sound defense.. no good answer for it. It's clear that he simply does not have the guts to truly deliver a privacy-respecting search engine. He's fixated on serving normies who are privacy-naive.
@resist1984 can you sigjusstt an alternative?
@SaulRS951 my preferred search engine for advanced users is sercxi.nnpaefp7pkadbxxkhz2agtbv2a4g5sgo2fbmv3i7czaua354334uqqad.onion Nothing is better than that. It filters out #Cloudflare sites. Short of that, for novice users there is metasearch.nl, yacy.noisytoot.org, openworlds.info, search.disroot.org, and metager.de.
@resist1984 but disregarding .onion domains (I use a non-tor browser (how good is librewolf?)), which engine would you recommend?
@SaulRS951 well there is a clearnet version of Ss but i've not tried it myself. It's sercxi.eu.org. I don't think it has reliable uptime but if you manage to access it when it's up then it's your best option. Otherwise metasearch.nl or the like is probably your next best option.
@Bmz @SaulRS951 There is also yacy.everdot.org but i've not used it lately. And there is searx.everdot.org, which likely sources from everdot's #yacy instance.
@resist1984 the .onion engine reads like a shitpost