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Swisscows

Web search engine operated by Hulbee AG

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Jan 14, 2026
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Which porn search engines offer the strongest privacy protections and why?

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...

Nov 27, 2025
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Which browsers or search engines use end-to-end encryption or anonymization to minimize legal exposure?

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 ...

Jan 27, 2026
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Which privacy-focussed search engines have undergone full audits on their privacy claims?

The available reporting catalogs many “” search engines—, , , , , , , and others—but the pieces supplied do not document of those engines’ core privacy claims; reviewer tests and site descriptions are...

Dec 9, 2025

Which search engines use end-to-end encryption or client-side encryption for queries?

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...

Dec 9, 2025

What technical and policy options exist for users to reduce search data retention and prevent law enforcement access?

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...

Dec 6, 2025

What alternatives to Google Analytics respect DuckDuckGo users' privacy better?

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...

Nov 29, 2025

Do other privacy-focused search engines use DoH or DoT?

Most mainstream privacy-focused search engines are described in the sources as emphasizing minimal tracking or independent indexing, but the provided reporting does not systematically list which engin...