Tibert

What are you talking about. Your country isn't an example of all europe.

In France the prices are extremely low for pretty much unlimited sms.

In other countries too. There are however disparities between countries and their prices.

As much as I disagree on paying 10$/m for a search engine, I will disagree with your take on their data sharing.

In their privacy policy https://kagi.com/privacy , they state that they collect logs :

• Kagi server identification, configuration, and performance (CPU, RAM, etc.)
• Identifiers that tell us what code paths were taken
• Time measurements of individual steps of request fulfillment
• Summaries of requests made to third parties

Absent from our logs are any identifying information about your client

Tho I'm not sure how they could fulfill these purposes :

• Prevent abuse of our product from bad actors (DDOS, etc.)
• Detecting abuse of our platform

With only logs on how the serice îs used anonymously.

They do send the logs to Sentry for analysis. But without any search query, from what they say.

What I remember : Startpage has been bought by an advertising company. So who knows what they could do with it.

Not sure using Ecosia has any benefit if using ublock to block everything.

Ecosia doesn't apply tracking cookies. And fingerprinting does not need cookies. It just needs to know what you are.

Device size, information, browser... And other shared info.

I'm not talking about duckduckgo. Don't use duckduck.com. Use duckduckgo.com

And for reddit posts, as much as I want Lemmy to succeed, I cannot ignore reddit.

Sometimes an answer I'm looking for is there hidded between useless comments (if it hasn't been deleted or overwritten by the user).

You did not understood what I said lol. Don't use duckduck.com. Use duckduckgo.com

This is worse than what the title says. It doesn't after the search results. It changes the search terms you inputed.

It completely deletes what you put, to replace it (without anyone noticing it) with similar search words, but to get money from a brand or make you buy from that brand.

And when you buy or click on links, Google makes money because advertising and partnership.

Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company

First, the generated results to the latter query are more likely to be shopping-oriented, triggering your subsequent behavior much like the candy display at a grocery store’s checkout

Second, that latter query will automatically generate the keyword ads placed on the search engine results page by stores like TJ Maxx, which pay Google every time you click on them. In short, it's a guaranteed way to line Google’s pockets.

Don't use duckduck.com it may not lead to the expected result.

I sometimes get this too. It's a bit annoying on mobile (not happening on desktop), but I often just need to reload the page.