Most search engines make money with ads, including DDG. Plus, DDG has in the past explicitly whitelisted trackers from MS so I wouldn’t trust them. They are definitely better than Google though (as low of a bar that is).
SearXNG (https://searx.space/) seems to be the best option from a privacy standpoint I found so far.
MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users’ privacy. Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO ‘SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge’ and the University of Hannover, the system is built on 24 small-scale web crawlers under MetaGer’s own control. In September 2013, MetaGer launched MetaGer.net, an English-language version of their search engine.
That you can hide yourself behind our proxyserver just by opening the result anonymously? Use “OPEN ANONYMOUSLY”; this also affects the following links.
Alternatives for WhatsApp and Google Search that won’t sell your information?
Best alternative for WhatsApp would be Signal
Signal and DuckDuckGo
Installing Signal is the easy part. Convincing your friends to do the same is the impossible part.
I was surprised by how many of my friends were using both when I first installed it. Just try it out.
I already did and managed to get two friends to use it too but they only use it to talk to me
Signal an Duckduckgo or Startpage
Most search engines make money with ads, including DDG. Plus, DDG has in the past explicitly whitelisted trackers from MS so I wouldn’t trust them. They are definitely better than Google though (as low of a bar that is).
SearXNG (https://searx.space/) seems to be the best option from a privacy standpoint I found so far.
That’s why you have to find services you pay for with your own money. So you know how they make money.
I love kagi. I know exactly how they make their money… because i pay them.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer
It currently supports the following languages/regions:
Dansk (Danmark)
Deutsch (Österreich/Schweiz/Deutschland)
English (Great Britain/Ireland/Malaysia/USA)
Español (España/México)
Suomalainen (Suomi)
Français (Canada/France)
Italiano (Italia)
Nederlands (Nederland)
Polski (Polska)
Svenska (Sverige)
Source: https://metager.org/lang
There is a TOR-hidden service too:
https://metager.org/tor
It is open source:
https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer
And has other useful features, for example:
Source: https://metager.org/tips
Alternatively I use some SearxNG-instances, preferably hosted in the EU:
https://searx.space
for WhatsApp : signal, telegram (for large news group chats) and jami
for google: searX/searXNG (really customizable) startpage (uses google search) ecosia (eco friendly and uses bing) and finally brave search (best independent search engine)
….iMessage MUHAHAHAHAHA
Signal is like WhatsApp but you don’t even need to share your phone number for it anymore. You can have an username and share that with people.