DuckDuckGo made a deal with the devil. Due to a confidential search agreement, the DuckDuckGo browser does not block all Microsoft trackers. What’s worse, DuckDuckGo only acknowledged this “privacy hole” after it was discovered by a security researcher."
https://www.reviewgeek.com/118915/duckduckgo-isnt-as-private-as-you-thought/
Wonderful, isn't it? After the last Bing incident, then the censoring fiasco, then this.
What browsers can we use now? I need to ditch this one.
Ive been using Yandex for a couple months. Switched just before DDG did a massive censorship push. Yandex seems uncensored on current events, allows both sides. Great for searching "political" things.
My only complaints are that it's hard to do "personal" searches (troubleshooting car problems, searching local city businesses) but I also don't have my location service on for the app, so it could be that. I was also having issues with everything being in Russian, but it has a handy "translate page" tool. I don't trust it for banking, then again I don't really trust any search engine for that. I prefer to keep it old school and go in person.
TLDR: Yandex is great for Political inquiries and current events, less so for personal searches.
I've heard pretty good things about Brave as well.
I use Brave also.
Try https://swisscows.com as well. Good for anything but searches containing profanity.
As an example, here's what you'll see if you search "boobs"-
No results found for "boobs"
Dear user, search results for the query "boobs" may contain violence and pornographie. Since we have decided on the protection of minors, the search for this query is disabled.
Thank you very much for your understanding!
Brave or Waterfox.
All other browers track you.
I recommend the plugin privacy badger for either as well, it blocks cross-site tracking cookings.
For search Yandex or Startpage. Yandex is Russian so no Fedboi or Five Eyes cooperation whatsoever, and Startpage hasn't been compromised like DDG.
Waterfox is silly outdated nonsense.
Librewolf is the privacy fork of Firefox.
Vivaldi and Brave, in that order. Both have built-in ad and tracker blocking available.