[deadalus]

I use Bing for porn. For reverse image search, I use Yandex. And for researching psychedelics and conspiracy(censored) topics - I use Brave Search.

I use Google only for vanilla search that shows I am a good citizen(navigation, online shopping, general research on movies and sports...etc). I don't want my search Identity to be fully profiled by Google. Police(and other bad actors like a hostile government) are more likely to access my data on Google than on other lesser know search engine.

[9991]

How do you know all search engines aren’t compromised?

(OK, reasonable chance Yandex isn’t compromised by your government, but the others?)

[boopmaster]

semi-related: I do get a jolly deep belly laugh when "a threat to national security" is loosely tossed out as doublespeak for "an augment to individual privacy".

Without a VPN or tor on at least some of those browsers, though, I imagine the metadata strewn about could get stitched back together on the data-broker (ad-tech) end of all those transactions.

this is why RMS ssh's into a pine server to read email, i reckon.

[FormerBandmate]

Yandex is absurdly compromised

[ThePowerOfFuet]

Why use Google at all, instead of something like DuckDuckGo?

[mpeg]

DDG is based in the US, what assurances do you have they would not comply to this kind of data request?

[qbrass]

I quit using DDG because when it ran out of answers based on what I searched for, it would spam results of 'random word in search query + city/area based on IP address'. Which was not only completely useless, but creepy as fuck.

[ggm]

Bing over yandex to avoid kompromat?

[walteweiss]

Da, comrade