With all the talk about privacy, people seem to be forgetting that censorship is also a major problem for today's internet. - eviltoast

Many “alternative” search engines are better for privacy, but they are still vulnerable to censorship, because they rely on g**gle and m*crosoft’s indices for their search results. This isn’t a deep-hidden secret either, many of them disclose what search index they use on the “about” page, for example:

There are still search engines that (claim to) maintain their own index. Most surprisingly, br*ve:

    • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
      45·
      9 months ago

      Wow I checked Yandex and its pretty neat. Also its Russian so your search data might be safe from US and its big tech. Would you recommend using it ?

      • retro@infosec.pub
        6·
        9 months ago

        Generally no, but if your hitting a dead end looking for things on Google/Bing based engines, it doesn’t hurt giving Yandex a shot.