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 #DuckDuckGo #search is down right now. What is a good #privacy respecting alternative? #asknostr 
 startpage 
 Start page is great, especially the “anonymous view” option. 
 Never used this. What's it for? 
 It’s a feature within Startpage. Anonymous view kinda acts like a VPN. It opens the website through a “shield” that blocks trackers, fingerprints, and provides a secure HTTPS connection. 
 Brave 
 Isn’t that a web browser? I’m looking for a search engine, not a web browser. 
 They have a own search engine iirc 
 Searx 
 local ai. 
 brave search. adding privacy and non-censorability (!) to DuckDuckGo, as well as allowing to search through photos/news/etc with JavaScript turned off (Tor's safest mode — recommended! JavaScript might be a dangerous crap) 
 #Stract. Fully #opensource. Independent index. Customisable. Beta!