Startpage is owned by an ad agency

What instance would you recommend?

Crikey, thats not good

did librewolf change it from ddg???

Out of all of the three, I would say startpage is the cleanest. DDG has had a fair few controversies https://techrights.org/o/2020/07/02/ddg-privacy-abuser-in-disguise/ . So I think they are off the list atm, I may consider brave search but I’m not sure.

what do you main?

I do like DDG, but it feels like its getting more bloated, furthermore I would prefer a EU based service rather than an american one. sorry but this might put you off ddg https://techrights.org/o/2020/07/02/ddg-privacy-abuser-in-disguise/

how to find a good searxng instance, as all the ones i have found are rubbish (self hosting isnt an option.)

Qwant has some reasonable privacy concerns its self as it sends your ip and stuff etc to microsoft.

I thought self hosting a searxng instance was like really bad due to you being the only user on it?

Haven’t really tried it but it isnt privacy friendly?

I have a feeling all these new duck products are going to get slapped with the fattest paywall once they want to turn these products into actual money making products. I’m talking about duck.ai aswell, mainly because if something seems to good to be true, it likely is

I would recommend simplelogin more as it is owned by proton, a trusted private company

Qwant aparrently aren’t very private