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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

duckduckgo is a US company and the CEO is the previous founder of The Names Database. i don’t know how anyone trusts it when there are so many EU alternatives

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So many yet in a thread asking for names you could name one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Qwant (france-based), startpage (NL-based), searxng (bunch of host options)

honorary mention to Stract which is currently totally useless because the results are so random, but hopefully in a few years it will be a proper alternative. they are indexing the web from scratch in order to not have to rely on existing data from other search engines (which is why the results are terrible right now lol)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Start page was purchased by an ad company a while back

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes it does. We have almost no options left any more. They all get ventured capitalisted

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, there's no winning

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

It doesn't appear to be that bad though