I’ve been trying to find a good privacy respecting browser, but I can’t really decide on what to use. I don’t like the search results with Brave Search. DuckDuckGo shares my information with Microsoft and SearchXNG shows me NSFW images even with strict search on. I really like Presearch, but I’m not really sure what they’re about.

EDIT: After tinkering with the settings of my SearXNG instance, it seems to have reduced the amount of NSFW images. I think I will stick with SearXNG for now.

  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
    1110·
    3 months ago

    I can only say good things about kagi. They let you adjust your search results according to how much you trust a given source, and the business model makes sense. You pay them, they give you a service. Heck, if you pay for unlimited searches, they have an actual incentive to make you search less and make you find results quickly

      • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        63·
        3 months ago

        Depending on what you’re searching for, Yandex might be the better option though. For example, things relating to piracy are probably going to be easier to find on Yandex than Google, because corporations file billions of DMCA notices every year. It’s one of the reason I use SearXNG, so I know I’m not getting the corporate sanitized version of the web.

    • りん〜@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      101·
      3 months ago

      Another $10 subscription just to browse the web… I don’t think it’s for me.

      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
        3·
        3 months ago

        My issue is not payment itself, but rather tying all my searches to a single identity. While it seems like they resolved the issue of only accepting KYC (although the only crypto accepted is Bitcoin, which has bigger fees than Monero as well as privacy issues, and to my understanding, Lightning is harder to self-custody), the absolute linkability remains.

      • kryptonidas
        34·
        3 months ago

        You pay with money or privacy, but pay you must. 😉

          • kryptonidas
            1·
            3 months ago

            I stand corrected:

            You pay with money or privacy, or nothing but then you should. (Or support in another way). 😉

        • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
          21·
          3 months ago

          If you pay for privacy, other than a vpn provider, you are a victim already