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