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Switch to Qwant

Hi everyone, so I hear that a lot of are lost in choosing a good search engine apart from the popular ones, but I think I have the solution

The search engine I've been using on all my devices is named "Qwant" its French and of course European. Its private and fast, I've been using it and didn't had any issues with it.

So yes I am also new here on Lemmy and just wanted to be useful.

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  • SearXNG is the best of ALL worlds. You can get results from every search engines, there’s no ads, and it’s self-hostable

    • I just got it set up yesterday and it's so good

    • With a private searxng instance searches still come from your single IP so if you use ie; google, bing, etc.. You're still being tracked heavily.

      Unless you use a public instance where your searches are 'lost in the noise'. But then most of the search engines will block it so it doesn't work very well in my experience.

      • I'm in learning-mode here, so forgive me if this is a dumb question: if I have my home server connect to a VPN for all outbound traffic, would that mitigate your issue with "your single IP". Would that make it so the IP they see is my VPN provider's, not mine? Thanks for any info

  • if you think that qwant is private, qwant has some bad news for you ☞ https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/confidentialite/

    they share your information with Microsoft even with "No consent"

    this is not the first time i see these promotional qwant posts here. Either qwant is getting these posted or people who claim to care about privacy don't read PRIVACY POLICY

    • to be fair, that only happens when you click on one of the ads, which i think is fair

      • i see that you haven't read their linked Privacy policy

        To provide relevant results when we do not have the answers to your queries ourselves, we have a partnership with Microsoft to provide our search results and contextual ads based on the entered keywords and your geographic region.

        For this purpose, Qwant can transfer the following pseudonymized data to this partner related to your query: 

         undefined
                 Search keywords,
     Information about the browser you are using,
     The first three bytes of your IP address or, in the case of a User Account, the IP address,
     The approximate geographic area originating the search on a regional or city level,
     The salted hash generated from your IP address, User Agent, and a salt changing at least every 3 months,
     A random token generated by Qwant (aiming to limit data cross-referencing).

        Additionally, for the security and reliability of our partner’s services (spam detection, automated activity, fraudulent ad clicks), Qwant may also collect and transfer your full IP address to this partner.

        Finally, as part of providing new features, Qwant shares your IP address with Microsoft to provide you with contextual ads and better search results.

  • anyone know what their plans are exactly in terms of switching away from bing?

    also altough I smile everytime im not using google or bing directly anymore while getting these amazing results with that nice qwant UI:

    it's image search is my biggest complaint usecase wise. the results are small, non-scalable and theres no similar search upon focusing one result

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