Did OP decide on a search engine or what?

I don't always connect to the internet that way -- that was an experiment I carried out on holiday as I was seeing different YouTube results on the hotel WiFi to my phone despite both being in The Netherlands my phone still seemed to have a UK gateway IP address.
I usually just connect to the internet with wired or wireless through a home router and only use the VPN for either switching location or when using WiFi with my phone or laptop in a public place.

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This forum is full of old wankers.

Not like the innocent kids (which everyone was) wanting to migrate to linux.
It was exciting. People wanted to help. Some people were experts.
That's what this forum was like many years ago.

we were innocent kids. we still are, but now we are OLD innocent kids! :-)

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Enough!!

I will remind members to review LQ Rules before posting in the way some have been posting. Be civil!! Rude and poor posting is not tolerated here at LQ!

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LQ Rules By your continued posting style and reporting will not help the issues that you create so I suggest that you re-read LQ Rules

and maybe looking at https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...#faq_welcomelq to help your posting style.

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The Dunning-Kruger effect certainly is strong in this one.
Apart from that, I see classical attention deficit disorder behavior:
not able to stick to the topic, reacting to every comment directed at them directly, forgetting about the previous argument, repeat ad nauseum - after all there's plenty of forum members who are willing to react to buzzwords and false claims.

(and i'm not attacking anyone, just trying to do the only constructive thing that is still possible here: an analysis)

I will react to this one:
1. no, you can't. unless your garage looks like this (interesting article btw).
2. interestingly, this poster keeps on dropping keywords (removed in my quote) without providing explanations, forcing folks to do a) web searches, b) clickety-click on strange sites. I resisted the urge.

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In the future, new linux people will be looking for a search engine which protects their privacy - and is effective in giving good answers to their search queries.

This LQ thread shows the answer is not here - and you will need to look harder.

The option I don't see listed is to just use google, but from incognito mode in the browser. Why trust any search engine?

The point is to not use Google.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6001727

Wow, so I was flagged for an infraction for this.

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I say Duck Duck Go is the best that I have used. Google steals your data and sells it, censors, and is bias. StartPage is private but has bias censored searches. Yandex is laughable when it comes to privacy by sending all searches and user data directly to the Kermlin, it also censors. As for the rest it's a mixed bag. I just Duck it.

Bias as in discriminates against groups of people or bias as in its algorithm is biased to certain pages it features at the top of searches?

You make a valuable point.

Google is not big all over the world.
Other search engines are big because they speak a different language. For example, Yandex = Russia, Baidu = China, Naver = S Korea.

Because these search engines speak a different language and live in powerful countries - I don't think they're owned by Google.

As for Startpage, Searx, DDG, Qwant etc - we have to do our own research and trust our own instincts.

Isn't it interesting that we are so suspicious if the search engine we use is in a Western language?