I stopped using the Google for everything (minus youtube) years ago. I had moved to Ecosia, I believe it is a US based charity (edit I was corrected it is a European non profit) project to plant trees in the desert and stuff. I know it took search things from, I wanna say; Google, Bing, and maybe Yahoo to get search results (will be trying to move to the EU search engine some time). I am sure the ads, that my pihole setup could not block, they show where from Google (edit Yahoo and Google) but it is not like I intentionally clicked them.
I got onto the self hosting train fairly hard because of the BoycottUS movement and I finally got searXNG working and set up as my default search engine on my iPad. Sure it is pulling results from US search engines but I am not paying for them (via my eyeballs on ads) and it is another US service I get to remove from the list of things to boycott!
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sunnytimes@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 160d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 160d
Nifty stuff, thanks for sharing. I think I will stick with searXNG though.
Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 160d
Searxing is great. Incredibly customisable, and the search is powerful if you want it to be. Using tags to limit which query goes to which engine is something I should utilise more. !WP only going to Wikipedia, or !translate only going to selected translate engines.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 160d
Cool beans, I just started using it and have yet to look up a cheat sheet. I just setup my phone to use it, I wireguard into my place to use my pihole setup so I will be using searXNG away from my LAN as well. I kinda wish I chose a better name than search.home as the domain but nothing was comming to me when I setup caddy.