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lunarcave 13 hours ago

In the "choose a default search engine" page, it has a slightly amusing summary for each.

> Google

> Your personal data fuels its monopoly. Market-dominant due to anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices.

> Qwant

> Based in Europe. Uses Bing results. Sends tracking data to Microsoft.

> DuckDuckGo

> Privacy-focused. Relies on Bing results but never tracks or profiles you.

> Ecosia

> May plant trees for clicking ads. Relies on Bing and Google. Sends tracking data to Microsoft and Google.

> Microsoft Bing

> Collects extensive personal data. Privacy controls are buried and limited. Subjectively overwhelming UI.

> Kagi

> Privacy-focused. Customizable results without ads or tracking. Requires a paid account.

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firejake308 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Slightly amusing, perhaps, but accurate and concise? Definitely.

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nunobrito 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Please review your opinion about Qwant, the overwhelming majority of search results are produced internally and they are very clear about what isn't: https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09/18/web-indexing-where...

In Europe they are still IMHO the best option for an independent search engine.

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TiredOfLife 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Kagi

should be changed to

> Openly and proudly collaborates with russian government

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n4bz0r 36 minutes ago | parent [-]

What's the context? Is there a proof of sorts?

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TiredOfLife 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

	▲	n4bz0r 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There is nothing about collaborating with Russian government in the post. They merely make use of a Russian-based search engine to provide better search results. I won't argue if this is good or bad, but from your statement it sounds like they collect all the users' data and sell it directly to Federal Security Service.

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godelski 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The irony is it is a Chromium browser...

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hopelite 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wish we could just add our own default search with a search string template like when the Internet was still alive.

That being said, I like using the slightly more obscure presearch.com and Swisscows.com, for what it’s worth.

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hdjrudni 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I wish we could just add our own default search with a search string template like when the Internet was still alive.

Can't we? The %s thing works in Vivaldi. Worked in Chrome last time I checked.

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lpln3452 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Firefox still lets you do this.

You can add any URL as a custom search engine by providing a string template for the query.

It doesn't have to be a formal "search provider". Any URL that accepts a query string will work.

	▲	a022311 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		IMO the problem with Firefox is that custom search engines in Firefox can't use POST requests, even though it's supported. You may want to check Mycroft Project [1] out for that. [1]: https://mycroftproject.com/

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keyle 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Imagine reading that list in 1995. Sigh.

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maineagetter 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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