Crossposted from https://lemmy.ca/post/43154811
If you want to support European search you are better off either using Mojeek (they have their own index) or Qwant/Ecosia (who are building their own engine).
Waterfox Private Search is a meta-search engine
isn’t a “metasearch engine” something that aggregates results from multiple search engines, like what SearXNG does? as far as I can tell, this one is a proxy that is going to let you choose between Google, Bing, Brave and Mojeek, and currently only the first one is available. it’s more akin to Startpage or Mullvad Leta, then.
What’s the difference between this and Duck Duck Go?
Waterfox has sold its users out before. DDG hasn’t (as far as I know)
The fact that Waterfox sold themselves to a search/advertising company before, then mysteriously became “independent” again doesn’t inspire trust. I’ll stick to Librewolf.
Well, duckduckgo is not that clean either. https://www.techradar.com/news/duckduckgo-in-hot-water-over-hidden-tracking-agreement-with-microsoft
Why is this being advertised on Buy European if they are shady as fuck and use US search engines underneath?
