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Mullvad leta vs 4get (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 day ago by lopar49@lemm.ee to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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This is pretty much a. Follow up to my post yesterday and was wondering which search engine to use, I’m leaning stlightly towards mullvad as it is a more reputable and they get their results exclusively from braves index but 4get is open source and has an official instance.

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[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How come? You can swap to google, but google is bad with censorship. I would have said braves index is the best independent index (other than google). Main reason I won’t use brave is it not being open source search engine. With this I get best of both worlds.

[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I'm not a fan of Brave or Google as companies for individual reasons, look up about Brave's CEO for example.

I prefer to use an aggregator so at the moment I'm using searxng; the main downside I've found is that instances tend to get blocked from indexes eventually so you do have to move around a bit.

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But this isn’t using brave?

[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

I mean I would think twice about using them as a single source for search, the same as I would think twice about using Google as a single source. That's why I prefer to use an aggregator.