Asking for a friend: just found out DuckDuckGo depends on Amazon. What else can I use (NOT Google!)

1/14/21 | Me, Myself, & I

[EinNYC]

I had recommended DuckDuckGo to my friend as a better search engine because supposedly it did not track you like Google did. But now I find out that DDG depends on an Amazon platform or something, and that it DOES store some of your information. Is there a better search engine that truly does not track you? I will relay any info garnered here to my friend, and possibly incorporate it myself. Thanks.

[Salamander]

But Brave set my search engine to DDG.

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[sauropod]

Try Qwant.

[nickcarraway]

You posted an article in which, Rich Granville, CEO of search engine site Yippy.com, critiques DuckDuckGo. So he is the CEO of a company that competes with DuckDuckGo.

So Granville is not exactly impartial, because his company needs to win over customers from DDG. The article doesn't even claim they tried to reach DDG for comment. So the article is pushing an agenda.

What he is says may be 100% correct. But it may not be. I'd like to hear from an impartial source.

[nickcarraway]

Brave is a partner of DDG. You can change to one of four other Search Engines.

[familyop]

Looks like this one gets around much of the search engine spam nicely. Tried some searches for free, private tutorials on how to build some things, and it worked well. Other search engines tend to give too much preference with hits to many of the same, old useless sites.

https://lite.qwant.com/
(”The search engine that respects your privacy”)

[Hostage]

I didn’t post the article you mention. I only posted to the tread originator.

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking

[Jeff Gordon]

Connect through a good VPN and use an Incognito browser. You will not have any form of tracking. None.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I just posted an article yesterday from Computeractive about switching away from Google tools. The post can be found here. Here is what it wrote about search engines:

The best alternative from a privacy point of view is DuckDuckGo, which won't track your activity, store your search history or share any of yor personal information. Better yet, the service routes any links you click in a way that prevents your search terms from being shared with other websites. DuckDuckGo includes many of the handy features you find in Google Search -- type a math calculation or a currency conversion and it will instantly provide an answer, for example. But some features, such as instant translation to and from English, are absent. And, because DuckDuckGo doesn't gather data about you, your search results aren't always as relevant. On the upside, you won't be targeted by adverts.

If you want the benefits of Google's high quality search results without all that tracking and profiling, then you could try StartPage -- a search engine that pays Google a small fee to use its search technology, but doesn't record your results or track you. Like many free services Startpage uses advertising to make money but these ads aren't generated by using your personal data. The result is a good balance between accuracy and privacy.

[Salamander]

I changed it to Qwant, whatever that is.

:D

[FreedomPoster]

Ha! That bottom article is important, and it’s somewhat hard to find a good succinct article explaining. I just went thru replacing the SSD on my laptop.

[rxsid]

"DDG depends on the Google database."

Not true.

[rxsid]

FYI.

[familyop]

DuckDuckGo.com should be fine for privacy.

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

I’ve just been looking around for a search engine that doesn’t favor popular sites as much as others do. Quant does show a few “AD” hits at the top of the hit list in a search, but those are easy to skip.

[Chgogal]

No. I am not pleased with duck duck go. Here is a search engine I just found.

Try https://www.4conservative.com/

[kvanbrunt2]

I’m finding the dissent web browser able to stop alot of crap. not from a technical analysis but just as i see my web pages and searches results show up.

[kvanbrunt2]

ttps://dissenter.com/
This is from GAB. Heard it’s very fast and doesn’t have cookies etc. no tracking. Haven’t tried it myself but I heard it’s great.
i’m very happy with it and i’m doing a web site deployment as my browser and it is very good.

[kvanbrunt2]

And i’m just sayin if a web site takes a while to load just kill it.

[aquila48]

Dissenter is a browser not a search engine.

[Hostage]

Very interesting TY.