Combo it with Ublock Origin and use their AI site blocklist.

DuckDuckGo actually tries to downrank them. It's just that there's no way ts tell for sure, especially for computers.

Qwant is French. Not a privacy search engine and looks like it features AI now. Kagi is really good, but US based and expensive. I think most of Europe does intelligence sharing with the US ("14 eyes" or something like that)?

There is ecosia, although they also use the US indexes

I wish we had a good European alternative that doesn’t have to comply to the NSA when they want direct access to logs while giving you a gag order…

Most of the European continent doesn't even require a judicial finding to turn over information to a Five Eyes agency.

I still go to Google for image search unfortunately.

What makes me suspect them having an agenda behind all their self-marketing is the fact that this isn't already the default page...

Having trouble adding this as the default search in Firefox.

Anybody know the search query needed to use this from the address bar?

https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/q=%s

Does not seem to work.

Does it work as well as Google before it became absolute shit?

Google entered heavy enshittification stage and honestly… it’s sad to watch.

google has been in heavy enshittification for going on a decade now.

Honestly you could make the argument that its been on the enshittification slide since they tried to expand out from just being a search engine company.

I honestly can't find anything on google anymore. I barely use it at all, but sometimes someone will hand me their phone, so I'll give it a shot. I always end up switching to ddg before I find what I'm looking for.

There might be a way to use google search these days but its apparently beyond my desire/skills to learn it.

There is a good article about how it happened: The Man Who Killed Google Search by Ed Zitron

yeah that's what I'm saying

I'm sure the search engines log the IP, and with enough searches could be correlated back to you fairly easily even if you host it on a VPS? Unless it does some kind of mitigation I'm unaware of.

So don't click it then?

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Have fun!

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