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Do you use a self-hosted SearXNG, or one of the other hosted instances?
Self-hosted under a VPN would be the way to go if you want to be 100% sure.
The problem with public instances is that you can't really know what the owner does with the data. There are safe ones, and malicious ones. I'd just look for one that has a good reputation.
DDG cause the bangs are nice, but I find myself searching generally very little these days. I usually just use a bang to search a site I know I will find what I want on, if no bang then I will just navigate to that site. Search results have been shit for over a decade.
Brave!
I tried ecosia and startpage, the results through both are just 95% garbage. Duck Duck Go seems to be okay.
I use Vivaldi as my browser, includes ad block and various useful, if bulky, features.
I use presearch. Pretty happy with it. Never paid out my rewards, they're just growing
Been using Qwant for a few years. Good enough for 90% of searches imo. For whatever's left, I'll use DDG, Google in incognito, or Bing.
privacy focused ... called qwant
Hmm.