Search engines completely revolutionized how we access the web. If you want to find a website, you can type in keywords and search engines will show you a list of websites that match your criteria.

But your searches can reveal a lot of private information about you: your interests, location, medical conditions, political affiliation.

Google has 90% of the market share for searches, and they track everything you do. This gives them a deep, granular insight into who you are, and this is information that they sell.

Search engines are also an effective tool for controlling what information people have access to, and there are many studies that look at how search engines influence the behavior of users by filtering out some search results and prioritizing others.

Luckily there are many ways you can protect your privacy and take back control over your quests for information. Sometimes you sacrifice the quality of your search results by doing this, but other times you’d be surprised at how good alternative results are.

We look at the following privacyfocused browsers:

00:00 What is a search engine?
5:00 DuckDuckGo
6:56 MetaGer
8:00 SearX
9:15 Qwant
10:17 StartPage
11:57 Mojeek
13:01 YaCy
14:24 Brave Search

Always assess your personal risk and threatlevel when choosing a search engine, and remember that taking small steps to minimize your internet footprint can go a long way in protecting your privacy!

Edited by Lee Rennie
Written by Reuben Yap, Will Sandoval, and Naomi Brockwell
Tech advisor: Reuben Yap

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*Edit:
For those wondering if using a more private browser like Brave helps mitigate surveillance from using Google search. Here is a response from NBTV tech advisor Kieran Mesquita:
"Brave will block some fingerprinting measures and it does block a bunch of endpoints that google uses for telemetry collection but Google has multiple redundant ways to collect this information so the actual impact is pretty negligible when using Google search itself. Most of the telemetry blocking mitigates Google’s ability to track users on 3rd party sites (via adsense and google analytics) and not when using 1st party Google sites/tools."
Hope that helps!

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Recommended Books:

Permanent Record Edward Snowden
https://amzn.to/305negc

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State Glenn Greenwald
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What has the government done to our money Rothbard
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Naomi's Privacy Bag: some of my favorite products to help protect your privacy!

Use the Brave browser! https://brave.com/nao076

USBC to ethernet adapter:
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Lightening to ethernet adapter:
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Faraday bag wallet (signal stopping, to protect your fob, credit card, and phone)
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Data Blocker (if you're charging your phone in an unknown port, use this so that no data is transferred)
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Computer privacy screen (use your computer in public? Keep your information safe!)
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Phone privacy screen (don't let people in public see your private data)
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Camera cover (for computers and phones, so no one can access your camera without you knowing)
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Privacy Tip: Don't use wifi, and if you must, append the tag ‘_nomap’ or ‘_optout’ to your SSID to stop other websites tracking your location.