Until the past month, when I would search for a news story on StartPage, it would give me several pages of listings under the news tab unless it was an obscure story. Now, it gives me a single page. At the bottom of the page, there's a single 1 instead of the multiple digits there used to be. Same for Brave. Looks like they've been cucked.
I'm not using Bing or Google, or their whore, duckduckgo.
Startpage is using Google search, so it's censored from source. It's also owned by an ad agency. https://digdeeper.club/articles/search.xhtml#startpage
Brave uses their own Tailcat crawler, but it's a bought product that attemps to resemble google algorithms. It's still the best alternatives to google/bing though.
Brave results give me shittier google results. Basically. Brave is fine for normal stuff that you know you'd find on google but dont want them to get likes.
For actually important searches u just have to double check with yandex at least. It's all so annoying
Yandex.
Yandex censor results too, and it tracks you to boot.
For non-google/bing search engines, try Brave Search, Mojeek, and Private.sh (uses Gigablast).
More reading:
https://www.searchenginemap.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#General
Least worst in current landscape is Yandex.
It's not google or bing, but it also censors and tracks you, so it's not the least worst. Brave, Mojeek and private.sh/gigablast is.
Try Gibiru.
Gibiru uses google search. https://digdeeper.club/articles/search.xhtml#gibiru
Thanks for the link. I'll give MetaGer and Mojeek a try.
Np. Metager uses censored bing mostly though: https://metager.org/search-engine
I use Google in a non-ad block browser for commercial search queries (when you want to buy stuff) and in a ad block browser for problem solving, you use Bing and Duckduckgo for political/controversial & Arrr, my matey purposes.
Why support google at all?
DuckDuckGo uses Bing and censors results, on top of their wokeness, and Bing already censors results.
https://digdeeper.club/articles/search.xhtml#ddg
Convenience and levels of censorship?
Disregarding accepting ANY level of censorship, you got convenience right. Convenience and apathy is the sheep's way of accepting what's happening. If you support Big Tech, I hope you don't complain about them, their power, their shady practices, and their wokeness. Because that would be hypocritical.
Wrong.
I've significantly limited my exposure to most big tech corporations by keeping things separate as much as possible: different browser, different operating system, different mail server, different mail accounts, etc.
Using an ad-infested chrome browser for anonymous shopping based on a fake VPN IP is just a convenience you indulge in at times. The browser is I believe set on auto-delete of all cookies when you close it.
I saw your VPN comment below but I'm still not sure what the purpose of this is. Is there ever a reason not to use adblock? Are you saying when you search a product you want to get Google ad results at the top for that search?
Deals.
All engines you've listed are either American-run or rely on American-run search indexes (Startpage). Try yandex, it has its own index. Qwant is french, but fallbacks to Bing if their own index can't provide (Brave Search works similar)
Qwant censors results, and uses Bing more often than you think. They're also not good for privacy. https://digdeeper.club/articles/search.xhtml#qwant
Brave rarely falls back on Bing.. But it's true that a few percent of their results may come from Bing.