Unfortunately, as for the last month or so, Qwant has decided that I need to enable javascript execution on my browser in order to deliver the search results, which for security reasons I chose to have disabled.
Now using searxng, and I am pretty happy with it, using qwant as one of the sources.
I get blocked constantly using LibreWolf.
I would have said that it would be cool if this said what search engines include AI, but thats almost all of them
why is the image so low quality
Not sure, you can get access to the direct link to the file here: https://mobidrive.com/sharelink/i/2TWnMWgOrKoCcbsSc8ZaH54P6IlGSGScCi2lfDBSbBPt
For some reason thumbnails on Lemmy are pretty lowres.
While I understand the note on Kagi requiring an account making it less private in theory, in practice you can pay using OpenNode and use an anonymous email to sign up which makes it impossible to really tie anything to the real person you are at that point (and functionally like other engines that may use backend fingerprinting to help personalize your results, just in the open).
Kagi provides a bit more detail in their FAQs: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-trust
That said it's still an American company, so that may be the deal breaker for some which is fair.
Upvote for MetaGer. Pricing is ok and the service privacy-friendly. Would still love to see an independent index though.
at this point I pretty much on ddgs !bangs. tbey are pretty amazing. are there any good alternatives to them?
If DDGs is working, then no reason not to change. However, Qwant and Kagi often come up as top contendors.
