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Good European browsers and search engines to reccomend? (Privacy-focused and open source ideal) (piefed.social)
submitted 5 months ago* by to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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I currently use Firefox and DuckDuckGo, but I'm thinking about getting a new browser and search engine. Are there any good recommendations. Privacy-focused is non-negotiable, and i would like it to be open source.

I have heard of Ecosia. How exactly do they work? If they truly do help the environment, like they claim, I may look into that. Is there any evidence? Looking into their privacy policy, it doesn't seem too optimal.

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[โ€“] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Iโ€™ve been using Ecosia for years and itโ€™s only improved over time. Their commitment to environmental activities is sincere and you can check everything they do through their blog. I think using it is a no brainer.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    their commitment to env. activities is sincere

    I somewhat had this opinion as well, but by jumping on the ai hype train they threw this commitment out of the window imo

    Edit: sadly I don't have any real european alternatives (that aren't just using google or bing results) as the only other one that (partly) uses an eu-based web index is qwant, which is in no small part funded by Axel Springer and iirc a previous ceo went on to create a sourveillance company (which kinda seems fishy)

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Ohh, thank you for the info. Do you think it's still safe to use qwant, then?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    to be honest: i have no idea

    it could be perfectly safe; it could be very unsafe

    because of that i'm currently using startpage

    • kinda based in europe
    • iirc the company that owns it is american though
    • uses google's search results ._.
    • doesn't do any ai stuff iirc

    while trying to minimize my web searches by

    • typing in domains instead of searching for them
    • using bookmarks
    • using firefox search shortcuts to use a websites built-in search
    • using offline stuff
      • linux man pages
      • python help()
      • etc
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