Have you #DeGoogled your search?

[markmetz@sfba.social]

@Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo
Is that a Russian flag under Start page?
I’ve been trying out the Vivaldi browser and that’s the search they use.

[anders_s@mastodon.nu]

@shadowwwind @Tutanota @ecosia @Qwant @kagihq @StartpageSearch @duckduckgo OK. I mainly search in swedish which is a small language. I am pretty sure they have no index in swedish. But that probably goes for every search engine except Bing and Google. It seems to me that Qwant and Ecosia are the best alternatives anyway.

[egzuits@fairmove.net]

@markmetz No, Startpage is from the Netherlands

[jackgedge@mastodon.social]

@roddie

I believe if you add &k1=-1 to your search URL it also removes ads

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&k1=-1

[u_urban@social.tchncs.de]

@phoefer @Tutanota @MetaGer

MetaGer️

[markmetz@sfba.social]

@egzuits
Ah, good. Although some of the other comments here are making me a bit leery about it too.

[roddie@roddie.social]

@jackgedge Ah, great tip - I have adblock on most devices but not everything so I will definitely use this, thanks

https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-help-pages/blob/master/_docs/settings/params.md#interface-settings

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@jackgedge @roddie I have ad-blockers on every device.

And a pi-hole at home between me and the interwebs.

I have stopped using devices that make it difficult for me to block adverts.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@roddie @rguy In the old days of Firefox you could go to the add-ons website and "install" a search engine.

But only if someone had taken the time to make the particular variant you wanted.

In those days I used to have multiple DDG search engines in Firefox to allow me to search in different countries.

That is until Mozilla changed how search engines were displayed in the search field drop down menu making it was no longer possible to differentiate between the different instances of DDG.

[roddie@roddie.social]

@the_wub @jackgedge I use browser-based adblockers and a Pi-hole as well but I do remember seeing an ad result from DDG recently, I just can't remember which device

[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