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. Get Google search results, but without any ads, javascript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file. Quick and simple to implement as a primary search engine replacement on both...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
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  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
    SearXNG screenshot 1
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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
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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
    Qwant screenshot 1
    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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