I really like the Librewolf browser and DuckDuckGo search engine and mobile browser. The Iceraven browser on mobile is also quite nice.
Hardened Firefox + Searx, along with Noscript, Ublock Origin, and cookie autodelete. Mobile is the same thing but with Mobile Firefox.
Librewolf is actually better, no need to manually make firefox better (or other firefox fork).
It takes like 5 minutes to harden Firefox and 30 minutes to build librewolf from source.
Not to mention that Librewolf is struggling with compatibility on M1 macs, so you’re forced to build from source, but even then, no guarantee it will work because the developers can’t test it.
It took me two days to understand arkenfox.
I personally used this guide.
https://chrisx.xyz/blog/yet-another-firefox-hardening-guide/
I use Gentoo, I already build everything lol. But yeah it’s true that it takes no time to use a custom user.js
searx
I compiled a list of search engines that use their own indexes for organic results: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html
I typically use a Searx instance that mixes Google, Bing, and Bing-derivatives (e.g. DDG) with other indexes: petal, Mojeek, Gigablast, and Qwant (Qwant mixes its own results with Bing’s).
I’ll probably post a big update to that article at some point that compares if/how some of the listed engines process structured data.
Thank you!
duckduckgo and firefox with arkenfox’s user.js and ublock origin. works really well
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I wish qwant wouldn’t have so many problems. It could be a really good search engine
Yeah, there was something quirky with lite.qwant.com results that made it unusable… Will want to check on it again soon
Not only that
- springer holds a share of qwant and springer is a rubbish company.
- qwant on mobile shows you the mobile sites of the search results instead of the “real” website. I think that’s a tiny but important difference.
- qwant doesn’t show you the protocol, i.e. http, ftp, etc. And hides SSL encryption of sites on mobile.
- qwant hides the subfolder structure of the site you are about to enter on mobile.
- qwant forces you to choose a country and only serves higher income countries. Qwant shows you different results in different countries. It’s not just an english or french web, it’s a canadian french, french frens Ch, etc. Web.
Anyone using https://metager.org/ ?
I am, on Mobile.
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How about using different Searx instances?
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Firefox
Brave Search with Brave and DuckDuckGo.
DuckDuckGo is my favourite search engine. And my browser of choice is LibreWolf.
I don’t see Whoogle posted. If you really need/want to use Google search for whatever reason, Whoogle is a great alternative. I’m not sure why it’s not more heavily discussed on places like PrivacyGuides, PrivacyTools, etc.
I’ve been using Librewolf on Fedora, Bromite and Vanadium on mobile, and DDG for search but not super happy with that one and am looking for a replacement myself. Might use startpage, idk.
Bounced around alot but I’ve found FF with ublock, then recently started self hosting searx. Searx is alright but I still prefer DDG from time to time.