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Is Qwant still good privacy wise? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] fievel@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

This is fair, as long as you still allow to add own search engine it's good enough (I re-added qwant but I'm testing out alternatives a bit (searxng (public instance first), startpage and re-give a go to ddg to see if it improved a bit for local results)

Is Qwant still good privacy wise? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] fievel@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago

This is how I interpreted the policy too but wanted to be sure about it. It's so easy to get lost in juridic language.

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Is Qwant still good privacy wise? (lemm.ee)
 

I use Qwant as my default search engine because I thought it was more respectful of my privacy than Google or Bing and DuckDuckGo is not giving so good results in my country (for localization related searches).

I noticed that the engine was removed from the default engines for URL bar in latest IronFox version. So I searched a bit about why so, and found this issue in their tracker : https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/47.

What to think about this ? The message from ironfox dev seems clear but qwant seems to claim that the shared data are anonymized.