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Three search engines that don’t track you (Vivaldi browser team)

Started by Jason, August 10, 2022, 11:35:33 PM

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Jason

The creators of the Vivaldi browser suggest 3 privacy-oriented browsers. I use Ecosia all the time. It gets its search results from Bing but is anonymized. And it plants trees to fight climate change so everyone should use it, especially Fox. :) I don't always use Ecosia as certain searches require Google but Ecosia has an two-click dropdown to use another browser if the results aren't satisfactory.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/search-engines-that-dont-track/

Does anyone use one of these search engines or any search engine besides Google partly or most of the time? Which one(s) do you use?
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ssfc72

I use the Startpage search engine.  It uses the Google search engine but is suppose to anonymize your searches.

Startpage also has a feature called Anonymous View, which provides even more privacy when you go to a website listed in the search results. In the serach results listing, there is a small icon, to the left of the listing. You click on that icon and it takes you to the website anonymously.
https://www.startpage.com/en/anonymous-view/
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Jason

That's cool. I remember that somebody else in the LUG uses Startpage, too. I checked using Privacy Badger and it doesn't appear to have any trackers. Nice.
Zorin OS 17.3 installed on:
* Dell Precision 3630 Tower - i5-8600@3.1 GHz (4.3 GHz turbo) six core, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB M.2 drive, GeForce 1060 card (Zorin OS 17.3)
* Lenovo ThinkPad T480 w/ i5-8350U@1.7 GHz (3.4 GHz turbo) 4 cores/8 threads, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB M.2 drive, touchscreen (Zorin OS 17.3)