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Preferably one that doesn't censor search results. Like DuckDuckGo, apparently

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[–] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] gullible@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the context info. Saved me a search for it.

[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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I bounce around a few public Sear instances, its working great for me

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago

And you've got a massive case of writer's block right from the first word

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm fine with DuckDuckGoLite. If I really wanted to have granular control though, I'd spin up my own private searx instance.

[–] EdherJr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does DuckDuckGoLite display the same search results as DuckDuckGo? if so, I might aswell use regular DuckDuckGo

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kagi, but I hope it legit turns into a contest in a race to the top

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[–] o_k@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I have found LibreX/LibreY to be quite good, as long as you use a stable instance

[–] YaDong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I’ve been using Whoogle lately but used Startpage for a while too

[–] Gnorv@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I am using metager, but am not sure what qualifies as 'best' as I did not do much comparison.

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kagi. But I use Whoogle public instance and pretty happy with it 🙂

[–] EdherJr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I might start using Whoogle too, since Kagi is paid :)

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 🙁

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can you get ahold of crypto? They take bitcoin and i pay for it using monero via trocador.app

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whats it like there right now?

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[–] snegg@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Whoogle and SearXNG

what do you think ddg censors?

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

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 404 Bookmarks is also really useful for finding dead Bookmarks

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] aaathats3as@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

4get.ca, it's a metasearch engine, you get results from various search engines anonymously.

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