Have you #DeGoogled your search?

[haku@mk.absturztau.be]

@markmetz@sfba.social
No its the Dutch flag

this is russian
this is dutch

[egzuits@fairmove.net]

@markmetz They don't seem to collect any data so it should be fine, but it does still worry me.
I'd recommend looking into their privacy policy at startpage.com/privacy-policy

[sm32d@infosec.exchange]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch how about brave search? And why is DDG 4 stars?

[weirdfoodie@thecanadian.social]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo It's usually DuckDuckGo, although I'll use others on occasion.

[meowki@meowstodon.eu]

@Tutanota Uruky is working very well so far.

[viralobscurity@mstdn.social]

@Tutanota I use DDG no ai or brave search depending on which browser I use (Vivaldi or Librewolf)

Brave is really good and works without JavaScript but does push reddit hard and the CEO of brave is a piece of shit. No JavaScript blocks their AI too.

DDG No AI is fine for results too but gives me a forbidden error with JavaScript blocked and relies on bing more than I'd like

Used to use ecosia but kept getting nagged by cloudflare checks so I left

[harryk61@social.vivaldi.net]

@markmetz @Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo
@Vivaldi
Dutch Startpage is indeed default in Norwegian Vivaldi.

[wheaty73@social.vivaldi.net]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo Kagi FTW. Yes its paid, but it ain't expensive, and it actually finds things like Google used to do back in the day...

[rguy@mastodon.social]

@the_wub No, I use Helium on PC and it's super simple to add

[neilisin@tilde.zone]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo
@brave search is still a favorite

[marcsello@tutter.org]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo I've just subscribed for Kagi yesterday. I've been eyeing them for about a year now, but was always hesitant to start paying for searches. But I finally made the move. I'm sure it will pay off, because last time I blew the free 100 searches in about 2 days.

[orvalbeer@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo

Startpage; Swisscows

[canard164@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota
Yes, with Oursie. https://oursie.com/
@ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo

[byuck@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo Kagi for me.

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@Okuna @Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch StartPage used to be pretty good, but over the last year the quality of results has really taken a dive.

[pixelcode@social.tchncs.de]

@thoralf @dwa @Tutanota

#Kagi pay Yandex in exchange for search results. In russia, #Yandex hands over their users' private data to the FSB, promotes pro-war disinformation and shows only Kremlin-approved websites in the top 5 results. Yandex also sent their Ukrainian users' private information to the #russia‎n intelligence services.

@kagihq's CEO said: “The moment 'politics' becomes a factor in search results is the moment I stop working on a search engine. … Users deserve access to the best possible information, not information filtered through our political lens. … As someone who was a refugee of two wars, I'm not indifferent to human suffering. The world doesn't need another politicized search engine.”

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/07/17/kagi/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex
https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo/19

[thoralf@gruene.social]

@pixelcode @dwa @Tutanota @kagihq If that's the case, it would be a hard argument against Kagi.

I'm quite frankly rather puzzled, what other service to use instead because ads are no option and a pure meta search engine is suboptimal at best as well.

[bentley_lucas@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota
I utilize @Qwant and @Mojeek

I appreciate the research and rankings by @ethicalconsumer