Best privacy Search engines

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  1. Decentralized

    Opensource software for a search engine that can have open instances as allowing you to selfhost the software.

  2. Self-hosted meta-search yielding Google results without ads, JavaScript, tracking, cookies, AMP links, or referrer data, offered with easy one-click Docker deployment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
  3. SearXNG icon
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    most feature rich settings and search solutions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Cloudron
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  4. YaCy icon
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    YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    YaCy screenshot 1
    YaCy screenshot 1
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  5. LibreX icon
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    LibreX gives you results from Google, Qwant, Ahmia and popular torrent sites without spying on you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    LibreX screenshot 1
  6. Centralized

    Open for direct use.

  7. Startpage icon
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    The google proxy. Hosted in The Netherlands. GDPR compliant. Has the feauture to open websites in a sandbox, anonymously. Search by country. Fast and Reliable. No trackers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Tor
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Dark theme
    Light theme
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  8. One of most famous Privacy friendly search engines. I would just be mindful of the Microsoft trackers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • F-Droid
    • Yandex Browser
    • Tor
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
    DuckDuckGo Homepage
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  9. Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
    • Brave
    Brave Search screenshot 1
    Brave Search screenshot 1
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  10. Qwant icon
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    Hosted in France. GDPR compliant. Search by country. Fast and Reliable. No trackers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    Qwant screenshot 1
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Comments

Jenny
1

Brave should be included, it's the only good thing except for his browser...

1 reply
c17s5qhu

Agreed. It has been added.

Darlene Sonalder
2

Ecosia has poor privacy policy unfortunately and Qwant is currently in a legal process in France for sending not that well anonymized data to the US (Microsoft Bing)

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