Privacy Search Engines

How can a privacy-focused search engine block Tor? You probably should remove those.

My take on it - if they block Tor can we really call it private?

Didn’t brave have some scandals. Idk that’s when I stopped using it

Why is Ecosia on the list?

Quoting from tosdr.org:

• This service can view your browser history
• This service may collect, use, and share location data
• This service allows tracking via third-party cookies for purposes including targeted advertising
• This service tracks which web page referred you to it
• Your personal data is given to third parties

Doesn't look privacy-respecting.

I would remove Qwant from this list, because they share your data with Bing, their privacy policy have contradicting statements and include:

Qwant may transfer to this partner the following pseudonymous data related to your query:
– The keywords of the search;
– Information about the browser you are using (the User Agent);
– The first three bytes of your IP address;
– The approximate geographical area from which the search originated, at the level of a region or city;
– The salt hash generated from your IP address, your User Agent and a salt that changes at the latest every 3 months;
– A random token generated by Qwant.

..Qwant may also collect and transfer to this partner your full IP address.
This processing is in the legitimate interest of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited (article 6.1.f) to secure and make its services more reliable.

This data is transferred to this partner within the European Union, and may be retained in accordance with Bing’s Privacy Policy for a maximum period of 18 months.

Please, also review this if you plan to use qwant:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Controversies

As others have stated, you are mixing search engines with metasearch engines here. If you employ browser isolation and obscure your IP address, you can be anonymous with any engine.

Yacy has potential, and I run an instance. It relies on us operators to index sites. You will find results to be incomplete in many areas, but it can be great for researching controversial topics. When I want uncensored and not manipulated results, I also use Yandex.com and Brave.

Brave seems to work for me

Maybe add ecosia.org to the list, definitely a privacy focused search engine.

I can't recommend a self hosted SearXNG instance enough.

DDG uses Bing as a search backend last I checked, and the founder/CEO is spoke in favour of censoring search results that don't match with his worldview.

I wish more of them would support duckduckgo's bang system, brave seems to, but that's about it. Idealogically I find the idea of using brave troublesome because of a) Eich's transphobia, and b) the cryptobro factor (although I don't think the search page has an embedded miner, at least not from the cursory glance I took

searx and searxng are not search engines, and searx is more private (searxng collects info from users, which searx never wanted to). AFAIK duckduckgo is neither a search engine on its own, it uses blink...