@Fury @aral There's a huge table of search engines, all compared by tracking, organizational type (for-profit, non-profit, collective, hobby, personal), jurisdiction (US, countries in Europe, etc.), various safety ratings, and technical features at https://searchengine.party/
All of these can be added to a browser as a default search engine too, but it's a little convoluted. (The gist: Visit the site, right click on the URL bar, add it. Look in browser settings under search and set it as default.)
@amin that's great, thanks!
I mostly became aware of the list when my most recent hobby project, https://clew.se/, got added to it. ;)
That’s how I’m choosing to interpret it, yes. ;D
My current best guess is that their goal is to use my engine as a proxy of sorts to scrape for sites with login and comment forms that they can use a subsequent attack on. Still working on some measures to try and prevent that kind of exploitation.
@eliasr @garrett @Fury @aral aye it is also without updates for a while https://gitlab.com/nitrohorse/search-engines-compare