Anybody know about this search engine ?

How it can be compared with duckduckgo, qwant, swisscows, metager, startpage, etc…

It is opensource , free & private according to alternativeto.net

What do you think ?

  • @ExtremeDullard
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    58 months ago

    Open-source isn’t a guarantee that whoever makes the open-source software is privacy-respecting. Android was made by Google for example, and it was made open-source for the express purpose of creating a mobile OS ecosystem that would become so dominant it would allow Google to collect data on as many people as possible. Google invested massive amounts of money developing an entire operating system for a reason: they didn’t do it out of kindness.

    Conversely, closed source isn’t a guarantee that whoever makes the software is up to no good. There’s plenty of closed source software out there that’s perfectly legit. But of course it’s harder to verify the code if you have doubts.