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[โ€“] whaleross@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've been happy with DDG for so long. Uuugh.

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[โ€“] Cherry@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks. This I nice little guide, easy to suss and helps me figure my priorities.

[โ€“] cRazi_man@europe.pub 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I changed to Ecosia when I last saw this chart. It's working really well and is my main search engine across all my devices now.

But now I'm considering moving to Mojeek if that's better for privacy.

[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ecosia is based in the EU and it's working together with Qwant to build an European index. But Ecosia's mission is planting trees, and in order to do that they need revenue, which comes from targeted advertising.

[โ€“] sorenladegaard@social.vivaldi.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@Scrollone @cRazi_man But I think itโ€™s contextual advertising. If you search for โ€œlawnmowerโ€ you get lawnmower ads.

[โ€“] cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I want to support an EU company and the eco mission, but I also want privacy. I used to use Brave but I want to move away from that and still avoid leaking my data to Google.

[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I think the difference between "targeted" and "contextual" is an important one to make re: privacy. "Targeted" means they're tracking you and using your characteristics to customize the ads; "contextual" means they're just showing ads related to the search term.

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[โ€“] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ecosia is a better balance between experience and independence. Mojeek sadly will be a hit in terms of quality of results.

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[โ€“] MITM0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Does YaCy & Wiby count too ?

[โ€“] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there something like Weebly from Europe?

[โ€“] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sadly I don't have that answer on the top of my head. Maybe ask in !PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world to whether others might be able to help.

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How about just NOT supporting companies? Having an European company control what gets shown to you is not much of an improvement over having an American one do it...

There are decentralized search engines like SearXNG

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[โ€“] Tapionpoika@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a bit like Trumps tariffs, we need to cut everything off but there is no real alternative services. According this infograph, Startpage should be politically correct choice..

[โ€“] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Qwant is the closest to being independent and Non-US.... I was recently told about StartPage being bought out by System1 (A US company)

[โ€“] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

where is duckduckgo on this chart?

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