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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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Looking for a decent privacy-respecting search engine (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by carlytm@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Been using SearXNG for about a year now, and I just can't deal with instances constantly getting blocked by search engines anymore. So I'd like to find something a bit more reliable. I've read that DuckDuckGo has had some controversies in the past, and I wouldn't touch Brave with a 39 and a half foot pole.

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[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DDG does not index .onion websites, is it censorship?

And downranking search engine optimized Covid and Russia desinformation is part of being a useful search engine. If you search for "Ukraine" and the first 20 results are obviously Kremlin propaganda, your search engine is trash and nobody will use it because the results are unreliable at best.

The tracker issue had and has nothing to do with the search engine, just with the app. Yes that wasn't a good thing but rather insignificant.

[–] VolunTerry@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'll decide what is misinformation or propaganda for myself. If someone else is limiting what information you can and cannot have or determining what is objectively true for you before you even have exposure to other ideas, everything you "know" is unreliable at best.

[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like the biggest you problem imaginable... The search just downranks the shit, you can still find it.

[–] Ogygus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the purpose of searching, if not finding?

Then why make finding harder?

[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Thats literally my point .