eekee wrote:
I'm sorry to hear it takes so much effort to defeat search enging bubbling these days.
Well, the point is, remove everything that could be used to track you. Filter bubble is impossible if the search engine doesn't know who you are. Besides of cookies, websites with JS enabled could use
local storage to identify you. Using private windows should clear that too, but I've found that Firefox only clears that if you restart the browser; and Chromium doesn't clear it at all, not even in private mode. To check this, type "localStorage" in the Developer Console on a particular site. So I also turned JS off, and simply don't use search engines which are heavily loaded with JS bullshit (I look at you google).
BTW, duckduckgo is a frontend to bing, and startpage is nothing more than a google frontend. This means they proxy your search query to these engines, and in turn the engines use these frontend's bubble (which hopefully is wide enough because many people are using them for many different searches). Fair warning, startpage has recently been acquired by an advertisement company, so I guess it's not safe to be used any more.
My favourite is
Qwant (html-only version), but you can find more alternatives in this
ITFOSS article.
eekee wrote:
Note that I don't particularly use these for actual privacy any more; I'm not evaluating that. It's just more comfortable to not be bubbled.
Agreed! Privacy is very important, but not serving the desired results actually renders a search engine completely useless! Not to mention you can't use "
let me google for you" links any more, because the recipient is not guaranteed to see the same results!
Cheers,
bzt