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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Looking for a decent privacy-respecting search engine (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by carlytm@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Been using SearXNG for about a year now, and I just can't deal with instances constantly getting blocked by search engines anymore. So I'd like to find something a bit more reliable. I've read that DuckDuckGo has had some controversies in the past, and I wouldn't touch Brave with a 39 and a half foot pole.

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[–] fresh@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are the controversies with DuckDuckGo? I’ve never heard of anything.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Their browser is sharing data with MS, since they're using their services instead of Google. They've been upfront about it and explained there is no way around it.

As long as you just use their search engine, you're fine.