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Suggestion for the default search engine in IceCat

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From: Aaron <kontakt <at> aaronboos.de>
To: bug-gnuzilla <at> gnu.org
Subject: Suggestion for the default search engine in IceCat
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:40:45 +0200

Hi,

I hope I'm writing to the right address for my search engine suggestion
for IceCat.

Kind regards
Aaron


Am 23.06.20 um 18:48 schrieb Craig Topham via RT:
> On 2020-06-05 03:39:54, kontakt <at> aaronboos.de wrote:
>> Dear Free Software Foundation,
>>
>> I love the work you're doing and consider it super important!
>> I stumbled across the IceCat Browser and noticed duckduckgo being the
>> default search engine. Duckduckgo does not collect the data of its
>> users, however they put some ads in their search. I want to suggest to
>> use https://search.disroot.org/ or other SearX Instances. You can find
>> other trade-free search engines here:
>> https://www.trade-free.org/directory/?s=search+engine
>>
> Thank you for writing in and sharing your excitement for free software. You make an excellent observation about Duckduckgo, but the FSF does not manage the Icecat project. I would recommend reaching out to one of Icecat's project mailing lists here: <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/#lists>
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>> Kind regards and keep the good work going :)
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>

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From: qorg11 <qorg <at> vxempire.xyz>
To: bug-gnuzilla <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42027: Suggestion for the default search engine in IceCat
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 01:08:44 +0200

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On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 08:40:45PM +0200, Aaron wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope I'm writing to the right address for my search engine suggestion
> for IceCat.
I read the startpage.com privacy policy and its pretty good. They don't even log 
the IP addresses. 
Searx instances are pretty good. But some of them are kind of unstable. The one I'm using right
now (https://searx.privatenet.cf/) sometimes don't work. I've tried to use the dysroot searx
instane but I couldn't get good search results with it. 

Is there anything wrong with duckduckgo?
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From: Msavoritias <marinus.savoritias <at> disroot.org>
To: qorg11 <qorg <at> vxempire.xyz>
Cc: 42027 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42027: Suggestion for the default search engine in IceCat
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:07:47 +0200

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One legitimate complaint about Duckduckgo is that its not fully open 
source.
Its much better that Startpage for sure though. Startpage was aquired 
by an advertising company a while back:
<https://www.startpage.com/privacy-please/company-updates/startpage-and-privacy-one-group>

I would go with Searx ideally. But it does need some testing to find an 
instance that is stable.

Marinus

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:08, qorg11 <qorg <at> vxempire.xyz> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 08:40:45PM +0200, Aaron wrote:
>>  Hi,
>> 
>>  I hope I'm writing to the right address for my search engine 
>> suggestion
>>  for IceCat.
> I read the startpage.com privacy policy and its pretty good. They 
> don't even log
> the IP addresses.
> Searx instances are pretty good. But some of them are kind of 
> unstable. The one I'm using right
> now (<https://searx.privatenet.cf/>) sometimes don't work. I've tried 
> to use the dysroot searx
> instane but I couldn't get good search results with it.
> 
> Is there anything wrong with duckduckgo?
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