I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is there a better alternative or is DDG still the best ? Would appreciate if the search ingine came with firefox and i don’t have to jump through hoops to use it. I moved the post from ask lemmy to here .And also i deleted the post from ask lemmy because i thought it wasn’t the appropriate sub (i know should’ve thought of that before posting )
For a while I was self hosting whoogle but it’s been kind of problematic and gets rate limited very quickly. I have been looking at switching to searxng. For both of these you can find some hosted for the public but their security may not be as robust as a company like duck duck go would be. It’s a shame too that duckduckgo does actually collect data and send it to Microsoft as part of their agreement in order to use bing as their backend.
The data collection of DDG only regarded their browser, not the search engine.
I’ve got my own whoogle instance and have never been rate-limited
Running whoogle aswell and never been rate limited, but I did need to setup a horizontal pod autoscalaer on my deployment because it kept getting into a invalid state. Now kubernetes will just shoot the pod in the head and spin up another. Lol
I was self-hosting a whoogle instance but it stopped working and instead it would send me to google to accept cookies, so I nuked it.