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I switched to duckduckgo awhile ago, but for different reasons. They don’t keep your browsing history — at least they say they don’t. Google keeps it forever. Which means they may sell it to advertisers, or give it to the government.
Because of that, I used to use a search engine called scroogle, but google managed to kill it. It basically piggy-backed off of google, but promised to scrub your history clean every two days.
Now, of course, thanks to Trump and the GOP, your ISP can sell your history to whomever. So you have zero control. At least with google, you can go into your account and delete your various histories. As far as I know, there’s no way to do that with any ISP. No “account” for that.
As for the blocking of leftist sites — that really pisses me off. But I knew about Apple (through the Ipod library) and Google doing this in different forms for years. Both used hard-right sites to “define” things like socialism, Marxism, etc. etc. I think they still do.
This is not the Web as conceived by its earlier pioneers. The best of those pioneers saw it as a great way to exchange scholarship between universities and non-profs worldwide. Basically, public research for the public, kept in the public domain.
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