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Hi everyone, so I hear that a lot of are lost in choosing a good search engine apart from the popular ones, but I think I have the solution

The search engine I've been using on all my devices is named "Qwant" its French and of course European. Its private and fast, I've been using it and didn't had any issues with it.

So yes I am also new here on Lemmy and just wanted to be useful.

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[-] LWD@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago

I don't know if it's accurate to describe Qwant as "private." There is a bit to be desired with their privacy policy, such as them apparently sending your IP address to Microsoft

https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/confidentialite/

There's also this bizarre section

If you have not consented or are not subject to the Services offered, we automatically collect technical data... Salted hash of the IP address..., market segment of a query, date and time of the visit, information about the country and chosen language...

Anonymized by Microsoft after 6 months.

this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025

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