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Search Engine Privacy (lemmy.one)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one
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I've recently learned that DDG does not follow its own guidelines for privacy. I'm curious what search engines people here would recommend. I would prefer a search engine that not only respects my privacy but also doesn't hide or shadow ban content it doesn't like. Any recommendations?

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I recommend finding a different instance then. Not every instance is going to be great at it, and you do have to do a lot of fiddling around with preferences and be-bopping between various instances when the current instance is timing out.

...Or you could just hit F5 and try your search query again. For some reason that seems to work sometimes. It is possible to configure an instance to not get slammed; and you can host one yourself too

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The problem is that it doesn't matter which instance I use. I tried multiple instances, even self-hosted one myself. Sooner or later I always had the problem with timeouts (even with my self-hosted local instance) and it's so damn annoying. Even refreshing the page doesn't always help. I really don't feel like hopping from instance to instance just because my preferred instance has timeouts again. Reliability is crucial to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Did you check the preferences on the instance and change the default engine selections? You can check the engines and de-select engines that are turning out to be unreliable with results; which should result in fewer errors.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Of course I did. The thing is that the reliability of the search engines per instance varies from time to time so there's not a single instance that will always work perfectly and never has timeouts.

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