Doesn’t even get into WaterFox Private Search.
Startpage kinda sucks in my Opinion.
On the other hand, DuckDuckGo is pretty good. I know they get some results from Bing, but it doesn’t seem too privacy breaking for me
I installed No AI DuckDuckGo as my default search engine.
I don’t really see much of a difference between all of these different choices. I tried to like StartPage but it didn’t seem to be that great and I’d have to go back to Google every once in a while. Still want to check out Kagi one of these days.
I haven’t switched from kagi since I started, fully recommend. The only 2 services I pay for are proton and kagi
I like Qwant, but I’m a European working for a French enterprise, so.
Been using Waterfox for a while, switching off of startpage was the first thing I did. I welcome this change.
As a Brazilian, it’s such a very useful search engine for me! /s
Now, seriously, it’s a good thing I don’t update software as regularly as I should. I’m using an old version (6.6.10) of Waterfox and, if it’s going to change search engines, I’m likely going to stick with this version. Tech can’t help but enshittify.
It won’t change your search engine if you’ve set something else as your default. So just set it to what you want and then you’re free to update Waterfox.
After countless experiences of having settings reverted back to defaults upon updating, and having updates always coming with surprises like a Kinder Joy Surprise in the 00s, I doubt something wouldn’t end up smuggled like soldiers (“Agentic agents!”) inside a seemingly innocuous wooden monument. For example, the Waterfox version I’m using as of now (6.6.10) doesn’t seem to ship with the “Firefox’s VeRy HeLpFuL AgEnTiC bRoWsEr™ features” which can’t exactly be prevented from eventually bleeding through its forks, and this includes Waterfox. If it didn’t yet, it’ll do eventually as soon as Googl… I mean, Mozilla, makes it part of non-removable binary blobs within the upstream.
At this point, my only browser update will be when Servo browser finally debuts as an usable browser for daily web browsing affairs.
Sweet
1.org sucked
They change their search engines more than their underwear.
Qwant not available in the Philippines… gotta use VPN
Wish I could financially justify paying for Kagi, because that is really nice.
