#DataPrivacyWeek - We asked Tuta users about their favorite Google Search alternative. Which is yours?! 🔍
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@Tutanota On desktop, I have switched to Startpage.
@Tutanota Qwant! Have been super happy, can't wait that they publish their own search indexing
@Tutanota what was the sample size of the replies?
@Tutanota @lexinova
I am pretty new to the concept of Privacy, but I hope that I'm doing a good job by choosing StartPage (set to EU Servers) and ocasionally Kagi. I am also from Europe and I really hope that Chat Control won't be passed after all the effort and fighting.
@Tutanota Ecosia should be #1, or at least Qwant
@Tutanota
Right now, I mainly use Kagi and on some browsers SearXNG selfhosted
@Tutanota perfect 81 % of tuta user use US search engine,
DDG (Microsoft server), Brave (Amazon server), Startpage (Amazon server), Ecosia.org (Cloudflare server), Kagi (Google Cloud server)
Only mojeek (UK) and qwant (FR) are not US so avoid those US crap.
@Mojeek @Qwant #duckduckgo #brave @StartpageSearch @ecosia @kagihq #eu #sovereinty
@Tutanota really being wanting yo use Qwant but it doesn't get along well with my privacy configuration so I'm still using ddg for now
@Tutanota noai.duckduckgo.com and looking into european alternatives
The hard part is finding search engines that aren't implementing AI summaries or chat features.
I started with DDG, then moved to Ecosia then Start Page. All of them have AI chat and summary features.
For the moment I'm on Search For Trees since it has a similar mission to Ecosia but they donate more to tree projects.
@Tutanota DDG and Brave - i also use DDG.
@Tutanota Kagi is awesome, I totally dig it.
@Tutanota Startpage for years over years.
Using DDG and Qwant too.
Depending on the mood
@Tutanota no a big difference, nowadays all are a bit of junk.
@Tutanota
Everyone raves about DDG. I can't stand it. I've tried their browser and their search engines many times but I just don't get along with it at all. Its seems to constantly add settings back that I've turned off.
SearXNG and Mojeek are work a look, but I default back to StartPage and Quant.
Have tried most of those, and now it's only qwant.
@Tutanota running my own metasearch server, SearxNG in a docker container on a raspberry pi.
@Tutanota SearXNG primarily, Brave Search as backup.
@Tutanota First it was DDG, then Ecosia. Now thinking of switching to Qwant.