Preferably one that doesn’t censor search results. Like DuckDuckGo, apparently
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The quality and customization of their search results are great
I agree that Kagi isn’t great from a privacy perspective. But in regards to clearing cookies, they do have a session link feature that uses a token to avoid the need to sign in all the time.
This was particularly visible on far right subreddits where they began heavily recommending yandex. Because that makes sense. Swapping from a privacy-centric search engine to a literal Russian propaganda conveyor belt? Yeah, sure. No clue how many bit the bait.
Censorship of any kind is bad because it sets a bad precedent. There’s a reason why the ACLU defended the KKK’s freedom of speech in 1978. If you can censor one, you can censor all.
No it’s not lol
While I am not far right and don’t support Russia in this conflict, it’s still very wrong to censor anything political.
DDG is perfectly fine
I bounce around a few public Sear instances, its working great for me
I’m fine with DuckDuckGoLite. If I really wanted to have granular control though, I’d spin up my own private searx instance.
Does DuckDuckGoLite display the same search results as DuckDuckGo? if so, I might aswell use regular DuckDuckGo
It does. I just prefer it to regular ddg.
I don’t know if these are the same but I quite like ddg html. I still don’t fully trust them because ‘murica but I haven’t heard of anything from them yet. I will probably switch to selfhosted librex sometime.
DDG HTML is quite similar to Lite, IIRC Lite does have some JS involved as opposwd to HTML versipn, but I could be wrong.
DDG is Microsoft Bing under the hood, so yeah, not ideal. DDG also made some controversial changes when the Russia/Ukraine war started, but at least for me, I just didn’t see any lesser evils in the room that could still get me the results I needed.
I’ve tried Brave Search and it’s impressive what they’ve done, but their monetization model via Crypto is unlikely to pan out and I don’t see them lasting long unless they can find a way to monetize without crypto and ad revenue.
As far as searx is concerned, it just pulls in a bunch of other search engine results and I’m not sure if it just ends up supporting those engines at the end of the day. If anyone else knows more about whether these search platforms are still able to monetize off of searx results, please chime in.
I haven’t heard of librex, but will take a look. Thanks for the lead!
Remember you’re writing an espionage political thriller, and that’s why you have to research thoroughly about navigating the dark web, obtaining rare minerals on the black market, refining radioactive isotopes, and atomic / hydrogen bomb configurations like the tellar-ulam.
And you’ve got a massive case of writer’s block right from the first word
I am using metager, but am not sure what qualifies as ‘best’ as I did not do much comparison.
Whoogle and SearXNG
I’ve been using Whoogle lately but used Startpage for a while too
Kagi. But I use Whoogle public instance and pretty happy with it 🙂
I might start using Whoogle too, since Kagi is paid :)
If there were no problems with payment from Russia, then I would gladly pay for kagi. but unfortunately there is no such possibility due to sanctions 🙁
Can you get ahold of crypto? They take bitcoin and i pay for it using monero via trocador.app
Large commissions when replenishing a wallet/transfers, and Kagi itself is quite expensive for me to afford it)
Ah. They do have a $5 plan if you werent aware. But large commissions i can understand would be a problem
300 searches per month? phthhthtpttpphppt, pre one day, maybe would be ok :)
I am still on my 100 search free trial and its been over a month. Apparently i only average like 2-2.2 searches per day.
Kagi is quite possibly the least privacy friendly search engine out there. I swear there’s astroturfing going on here, I don’t know why anyone would pay for this, they’re just falling for marketing.
Not to mention it just won’t work in private browsing and all your queries are tied to a specific account which also has your personal information from your payments.
DuckDuckGo does not censor, that is misinformation and FUD. It’s probably the best search engine currently for most things.
How so? It requires you to have an account and give your payment information
In Firefox, enter
*in the URL bar.Your own Bookmarks and Firefoxes search are the most private search engine. There are literally people googling “Google”.
The Addon
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