I’ve recently learned that DDG does not follow its own guidelines for privacy. I’m curious what search engines people here would recommend. I would prefer a search engine that not only respects my privacy but also doesn’t hide or shadow ban content it doesn’t like. Any recommendations?
THat is correct. I appreciate the clarity :).
As for SearXNG, you need a means to host an instance of that as well as a domain yeah?
You can host your own, but you can also find a public instance.
You can find many public hosted instances here but some of them use Cloudflare because they fear DDoS attacks. So keep that in mind when choosing your instance. Best is to host your own instance.
make sure to run a vpn on the searxng server btw
i wouldn’t trust instances hosted by random people on the internet, companies like ddg/startpage/brave search etc actually have their business at stake if found to be violating their privacy policy, if some random person hosting a searxng instance decided to sell search queries, they’d likely get away with it.