c/privacy · by Lasairiona@kbin.social · 3y

Qwant - The European search engine that respects your privacy

https://about.qwant.com/en/

Designed and based in France, Qwant is the first search engine that protects its users' freedoms. Our key words: privacy and neutrality.

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5 Comments

kindenough@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I for one am not trusting this search engine for one bit

Since mid-2016, the company has started sending data to Microsoft Bing Ads, without informed consent of its users. It did not announce this to its users until mid-2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Controversies

Lasairiona@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y

@kindenough Thanks, I had no idea! I will pass this on to the person that made me aware of it!

kindenough@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

No worries, I was interested in your post because I like a good search engine with respect to privacy of it's users, but when I read further into Qwant it all seems very shady from CEO to investors and not respecting privacy at all, only to inform users 5 years later of their partnership with Bing.

Have a good weekend, Lasairiona

Lasairiona@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y

@kindenough I'm currently using the Duckduckgo browser for 95% of my online stuff. Sadly it doesn't work with a lot of payment sites, so it's back to Chrome for that (I know Firefox has more privacy, I just never really got into it).

I also found Startpage recently, but they went the way of Qwant as well https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group

Have a good weekend too!