I am sure there is a good reason for this. I am looking for alternatives to google, and these to be the ones that pop-up most often.
RESOLVED: I used up my 100 searches in kagi pretty quickly, and the experience was really nice. I am quite anti-subscription, so I won’t continue using it. I eliminated brave from my search due to the crypto stuff and whatnot. I am now using mojeek, which gave me better results over DDG when searching for niche stuff. Also I like mojeeks interface a lot more.
Please don’t mistake this for an endossement of DDG. But nobody trusts Mojeek’s leadership, nobody can access Qwant because they block hardened browsers, and Ecosia’s business model is selling your data.
If you have a VPS that can access Qwant and a way to transfer links between it and your general high risk VPS, Qwant might be a good option for a lot of users.
From a non-privacy perspective, if someone wanted to de-google for BDS reasons, I’d probably tell them to switch to Ecosia.
I didn’t know about Mojeek leadership, I only recently discovered.
I access Qwant NP from Waterfox with hardened settings and extensions to block a lot of stuff.
Ecosia does currently use Bing & Google data for results (building an index with Qwant), but the data is anonymized/does not build personalized profiles while still creating value and funding for the company.