I’m currently working on re-evaluating our search engine selection (reading privacy policies and all that good stuff), to see what to keep, remove, maybe add. I figured I might use some input from lemmy.

  • what do you use out of the ones we include? is anyone actually using search engines like qwant and metager?
  • do you add any search engine to librewolf?

if you’re curious bout my notes on this -> https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/issues/111

  • Adda@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    To add to the Gigablast mention, they teamed up with freenode to create private.sh search engine… Well, I do not know whether they mean the former freenode (nowadays Libera.Chat), or the new one (the freenode after that debacle with the takeover of freenode). If the latter is the case, well, I would say stay miles away from it. And considering I have not seen any mentions of it anywhere, I would be marginally cautious. It might be all all right, but who knows.

    From private.sh How it works site:

    Built to be audited

    Rather than relying solely on closed technologies, we’ve made a genuine effort to publish our code and to use well known and thoroughly tested open solutions to provide a truly private search experience.

    Our website and extension is built with open source technologies and can easily be audited and improved through our open source program (coming soon!).

    Well, I do not know, but I have not been able to find the source code, so as far I can tell so far, I cannot believe them.