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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)

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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