Alternatives to DuckDuckGo and Firefox?
There's been recent news and articles about both of the above platforms taking a less firm stance on free speech absolutism within the last year (such articles have hit front page on HN, I find it redundant to link them here). Personal politics aside, it feels like it'd be healthy to have a glut of platforms that have a variety of stances on free speech, and yet it's been quite hard to find one that sticks to its proposed principles.
Are there alternatives that some of you would recommend in this sense?
I just got into the beta for https://kagi.com/ which at this time seems at least as good if not better than DDG
Librewolf is a Firefox fork stripped out of all telemetry with additional privacy oriented default settings.
I switched to it from chrome and never looked back. Tons of good features, really customizable, and (what seems like) a pretty sound business model (no crypto!)
Firefox has bad management after they fired people with wrong opinions, but it is still better than the Chrome monoculture. This will especially apparent if they migrate to manifest v3 completely around next year.
DDG is far easier replaced. Brave for example.
Browser and search engine.
Searx is interesting for replacing DDG.
mojeek is truly a totally different index.
Startpage has been my search engine for a while. I’m surprised no one has mentioned it here.
neeva.com is a subscription search engine. I think privacy counts as a premium service now.
Although, I wouldn’t expect anyone to not work with the police, even if you pay.