I’ve been trying to find a good privacy respecting browser, but I can’t really decide on what to use. I don’t like the search results with Brave Search. DuckDuckGo shares my information with Microsoft and SearchXNG shows me NSFW images even with strict search on. I really like Presearch, but I’m not really sure what they’re about.
EDIT: After tinkering with the settings of my SearXNG instance, it seems to have reduced the amount of NSFW images. I think I will stick with SearXNG for now.
Another $10 subscription just to browse the web… I don’t think it’s for me.
My issue is not payment itself, but rather tying all my searches to a single identity. While it seems like they resolved the issue of only accepting KYC (although the only crypto accepted is Bitcoin, which has bigger fees than Monero as well as privacy issues, and to my understanding, Lightning is harder to self-custody), the absolute linkability remains.
You pay with money or privacy, but pay you must. 😉
SearXNG seems to be free and private, checkmate!
I stand corrected:
You pay with money or privacy, or nothing but then you should. (Or support in another way). 😉
you’re still paying for server fees and free labor from the developers
If you pay for privacy, other than a vpn provider, you are a victim already