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.
I can only say good things about kagi. They let you adjust your search results according to how much you trust a given source, and the business model makes sense. You pay them, they give you a service. Heck, if you pay for unlimited searches, they have an actual incentive to make you search less and make you find results quickly
Kagi uses russian Yandex and pretend it is neutral “business as usual”:
https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo
Depending on what you’re searching for, Yandex might be the better option though. For example, things relating to piracy are probably going to be easier to find on Yandex than Google, because corporations file billions of DMCA notices every year. It’s one of the reason I use SearXNG, so I know I’m not getting the corporate sanitized version of the web.
Another $10 subscription just to browse the web… I don’t think it’s for me.
You pay with money or privacy, but pay you must. 😉
SearXNG seems to be free and private, checkmate!
you’re still paying for server fees and free labor from the developers