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A small set of privacy-focused general search engines—Swisscows, MetaGer, Mojeek, DuckDuckGo/Startpage and privacy metasearch tools like SearX—offer the strongest protections when used to look up adul...
Privacy experts point to a small stable of alternatives to DuckDuckGo — notably Startpage, Brave Search, MetaGer, Mojeek, Qwant and Searx — each chosen for different tradeoffs between independent inde...
Popular privacy browsers and search engines take different technical and policy approaches to reduce legal exposure for users: Tor Browser routes traffic through multiple encrypted volunteer nodes to ...
DuckDuckGo positions itself as a privacy-first engine that “doesn’t collect or store” personal search histories, IPs or user profiles, and advertises non‑personalized, keyword-based ads . Google colle...
Several privacy-focused search engines advertise use of encryption to protect queries in transit; a subset also claim additional client-side or “local” encryption so queries are encrypted before leavi...
Google Analytics is a website analytics product, but available sources focus on search engines and browsers as privacy-focused alternatives to DuckDuckGo rather than analytics tools; common alternativ...
A set of widely mentioned privacy‑focused search engines—DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Startpage, Qwant, MetaGer, Searx (and forks), Mojeek and niche players like Gibiru—publicly claim no‑logging or zero ...
Users can reduce how long companies keep search and log data through a mix of technical steps (private search engines, private browsing, VPNs, Tor, encrypted services) and policy levers (exercise dele...
Search Encrypt is repeatedly documented in vendor and third‑party sources as performing client‑side encryption of search queries with a short‑lived key before sending them to its servers (company FAQ ...