If you want Google without the tracking and with a proxy, when needed, Startpage is for you.
Otherwise, I use Brave search.
I use Startpage as well—but they keep coming up with page after page of establishment propaganda.
There is a “trick” anyone can use to fix it.
The Mockingbird Media uses the same keywords all the time.
If you identify a few of those words and then include minus signs in front of them as part of your search the world of alternative web sites will open up for you.