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If I don't find what I'm looking for I may still jump over to Google (via incognito window) p.s ecosia does have their annoying obligatory ai chat bot that attempts t", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "DuckDuckGo", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}, {"id": 786503024, "item_id": 49156439, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156439", "by": "axegon_", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Lately I've completely switched to ecosia. It gives really decent results for the time being", "excerpt": "Annoyingly search was at large solved just a few years ago and sadly someone has to reinvent the wheel soon. Lately I've completely switched to ecosia. It gives really decent results for the time being, hoping it'd improve with their co-op with qwant. I also run searxng behind a tor proxy and while it does a pretty solid job overall, it still relies entirely on other search engines so it's not a question of \"if\" but ", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "DuckDuckGo", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}, {"id": 741277856, "item_id": 46329866, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329866", "by": "kittikitti", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend Ecosia and DuckDuckGo but Brave Search for the most private options.", "excerpt": "The first thing I do when installing a new browser is to change the default search engine. 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I also run searxng behind a tor proxy and while it does a pretty solid job overall, it still relies entirely on other search engines so it's not a question of \"if\" but ", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "DuckDuckGo", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}, {"id": 737436016, "item_id": 46089751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089751", "by": "not_your_vase", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ecosia now, which gives at least usable results for this", "excerpt": "So you want to host it yourself, or you want to use bittorrent? The former is how people distributed cat videos before the Youtube era. The latter is not hosted by you, but by all users participating the swarm. The first page for \"bitternt stream online\" (sic) keywords in your favorite search engine should should give some ideas about that (I use ecosia now, which gives at least usable results for this).", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Streaming a Bittorent Video from a Webpage?"}, {"id": 786490880, "item_id": 49155680, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155680", "by": "spottedmarley", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "recently left duckduckgo for ecosia. It's the best alternative I've found", "excerpt": "I have roughly the same path as you through default search engines over the years and recently left duckduckgo for ecosia. It's the best alternative I've found and after about a week or two it became second nature just like the ones that came before it. If I don't find what I'm looking for I may still jump over to Google (via incognito window) p.s ecosia does have their annoying obligatory ai chat bot that attempts t", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "DuckDuckGo", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}]}, {"text": " and some choose it to support reforestation.", "cites": [{"id": 786616464, "item_id": 49163529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163529", "by": "sangtd", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i also use ecosia.", "excerpt": "i also use ecosia. actually, ddg, startpage, kagi, or self-hosted search engines are just anonymous queries to google and bing. brave has its own index, but i don't have a very positive impression of the brave browser. so if everything will eventually return to google and bing anyway, why not look at it from a different perspective and use it for reforestation. ecosia's policy is still to send ip addresses to partner", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}]}, {"text": " The most common caveat is that it shares user IP addresses with its search partners Google and Microsoft,", "cites": [{"id": 733723216, "item_id": 45857701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857701", "by": "fwn", "date": "2025-11-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they do share user IP addresses with their search partners (Google and Microsoft).", "excerpt": "While I like the general idea of Ecosia (in that it's a less harmful ad-funded service) they do share user IP addresses with their search partners (Google and Microsoft). > We, and our search partners, collect your IP address in order to protect our service against spammers trying to conduct fraud or to up-rank specific search results. Src.: https://www.ecosia.org/privacy This shouldn't necessarily stop anyone; I thi", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"}, {"id": 786616464, "item_id": 49163529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163529", "by": "sangtd", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i also use ecosia.", "excerpt": "i also use ecosia. actually, ddg, startpage, kagi, or self-hosted search engines are just anonymous queries to google and bing. brave has its own index, but i don't have a very positive impression of the brave browser. so if everything will eventually return to google and bing anyway, why not look at it from a different perspective and use it for reforestation. ecosia's policy is still to send ip addresses to partner", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}]}, {"text": " and one user finds its built-in AI chatbot annoying.", "cites": [{"id": 786490880, "item_id": 49155680, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155680", "by": "spottedmarley", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "recently left duckduckgo for ecosia. It's the best alternative I've found", "excerpt": "I have roughly the same path as you through default search engines over the years and recently left duckduckgo for ecosia. It's the best alternative I've found and after about a week or two it became second nature just like the ones that came before it. If I don't find what I'm looking for I may still jump over to Google (via incognito window) p.s ecosia does have their annoying obligatory ai chat bot that attempts t", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "DuckDuckGo", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Usable results", "summary": "Commenters describe its results as decent and usable.", "quotes": [{"id": 786503024, "item_id": 49156439, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156439", "by": "axegon_", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Lately I've completely switched to ecosia. It gives really decent results for the time being", "excerpt": "Annoyingly search was at large solved just a few years ago and sadly someone has to reinvent the wheel soon. Lately I've completely switched to ecosia. It gives really decent results for the time being, hoping it'd improve with their co-op with qwant. I also run searxng behind a tor proxy and while it does a pretty solid job overall, it still relies entirely on other search engines so it's not a question of \"if\" but ", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "DuckDuckGo", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}, {"id": 737436016, "item_id": 46089751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089751", "by": "not_your_vase", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ecosia now, which gives at least usable results for this", "excerpt": "So you want to host it yourself, or you want to use bittorrent? The former is how people distributed cat videos before the Youtube era. The latter is not hosted by you, but by all users participating the swarm. The first page for \"bitternt stream online\" (sic) keywords in your favorite search engine should should give some ideas about that (I use ecosia now, which gives at least usable results for this).", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Streaming a Bittorent Video from a Webpage?"}, {"id": 786490880, "item_id": 49155680, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155680", "by": "spottedmarley", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "recently left duckduckgo for ecosia. It's the best alternative I've found", "excerpt": "I have roughly the same path as you through default search engines over the years and recently left duckduckgo for ecosia. It's the best alternative I've found and after about a week or two it became second nature just like the ones that came before it. If I don't find what I'm looking for I may still jump over to Google (via incognito window) p.s ecosia does have their annoying obligatory ai chat bot that attempts t", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "DuckDuckGo", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}]}, {"label": "DuckDuckGo alternative", "summary": "Several commenters switched from DuckDuckGo, and one called it the best alternative they found.", "quotes": [{"id": 786490880, "item_id": 49155680, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155680", "by": "spottedmarley", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "recently left duckduckgo for ecosia. It's the best alternative I've found", "excerpt": "I have roughly the same path as you through default search engines over the years and recently left duckduckgo for ecosia. It's the best alternative I've found and after about a week or two it became second nature just like the ones that came before it. If I don't find what I'm looking for I may still jump over to Google (via incognito window) p.s ecosia does have their annoying obligatory ai chat bot that attempts t", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "DuckDuckGo", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}, {"id": 786503024, "item_id": 49156439, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156439", "by": "axegon_", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Lately I've completely switched to ecosia. It gives really decent results for the time being", "excerpt": "Annoyingly search was at large solved just a few years ago and sadly someone has to reinvent the wheel soon. Lately I've completely switched to ecosia. It gives really decent results for the time being, hoping it'd improve with their co-op with qwant. 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I recommend Ecosia and DuckDuckGo but Brave Search for the most private options.", "context": "", "use_case": "private search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant"}]}, {"label": "Reforestation", "summary": "One commenter uses it because its searches support reforestation.", "quotes": [{"id": 786616464, "item_id": 49163529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163529", "by": "sangtd", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i also use ecosia.", "excerpt": "i also use ecosia. actually, ddg, startpage, kagi, or self-hosted search engines are just anonymous queries to google and bing. brave has its own index, but i don't have a very positive impression of the brave browser. so if everything will eventually return to google and bing anyway, why not look at it from a different perspective and use it for reforestation. ecosia's policy is still to send ip addresses to partner", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}]}, {"label": "Easy switch", "summary": "One user said it became second nature within a week or two.", "quotes": [{"id": 786490880, "item_id": 49155680, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155680", "by": "spottedmarley", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "recently left duckduckgo for ecosia. It's the best alternative I've found", "excerpt": "I have roughly the same path as you through default search engines over the years and recently left duckduckgo for ecosia. It's the best alternative I've found and after about a week or two it became second nature just like the ones that came before it. If I don't find what I'm looking for I may still jump over to Google (via incognito window) p.s ecosia does have their annoying obligatory ai chat bot that attempts t", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "DuckDuckGo", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}]}, {"label": "Less harmful", "summary": "One commenter likes it as a less harmful ad-funded service.", "quotes": [{"id": 733723216, "item_id": 45857701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857701", "by": "fwn", "date": "2025-11-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they do share user IP addresses with their search partners (Google and Microsoft).", "excerpt": "While I like the general idea of Ecosia (in that it's a less harmful ad-funded service) they do share user IP addresses with their search partners (Google and Microsoft). > We, and our search partners, collect your IP address in order to protect our service against spammers trying to conduct fraud or to up-rank specific search results. 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I'll give Ecosia/Qwant a go than as I'm not really interested in opting-out of a bubble.", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}, {"id": 786503024, "item_id": 49156439, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156439", "by": "axegon_", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Lately I've completely switched to ecosia. It gives really decent results for the time being", "excerpt": "Annoyingly search was at large solved just a few years ago and sadly someone has to reinvent the wheel soon. Lately I've completely switched to ecosia. It gives really decent results for the time being, hoping it'd improve with their co-op with qwant. 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If I don't find what I'm looking for I may still jump over to Google (via incognito window) p.s ecosia does have their annoying obligatory ai chat bot that attempts t", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "DuckDuckGo", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}, {"id": 741277856, "item_id": 46329866, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329866", "by": "kittikitti", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend Ecosia and DuckDuckGo but Brave Search for the most private options.", "excerpt": "The first thing I do when installing a new browser is to change the default search engine. I recommend Ecosia and DuckDuckGo but Brave Search for the most private options.", "context": "", "use_case": "private search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant"}, {"id": 737436016, "item_id": 46089751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089751", "by": "not_your_vase", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ecosia now, which gives at least usable results for this", "excerpt": "So you want to host it yourself, or you want to use bittorrent? The former is how people distributed cat videos before the Youtube era. The latter is not hosted by you, but by all users participating the swarm. The first page for \"bitternt stream online\" (sic) keywords in your favorite search engine should should give some ideas about that (I use ecosia now, which gives at least usable results for this).", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Streaming a Bittorent Video from a Webpage?"}, {"id": 733723216, "item_id": 45857701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857701", "by": "fwn", "date": "2025-11-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they do share user IP addresses with their search partners (Google and Microsoft).", "excerpt": "While I like the general idea of Ecosia (in that it's a less harmful ad-funded service) they do share user IP addresses with their search partners (Google and Microsoft). > We, and our search partners, collect your IP address in order to protect our service against spammers trying to conduct fraud or to up-rank specific search results. Src.: https://www.ecosia.org/privacy This shouldn't necessarily stop anyone; I thi", "context": "", "use_case": "web search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"}]}