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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by Yetanfou on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @08:33AM (#18065756)
If you have your own server somewhere or access to such managed by someone you trust may I suggest using a meta-search engine like Searx [1] instead? That way you get to swat a whole cloud of flies in one fell swoop:

1: no personal tracking or profiling data for the search providers

2: no 'personalised' search

3: search results from several providers condensed into one list, i.e. more results for the same query

You can also use one of the public Searx instances [2] if you trust them enough not to do their own profiling. By default Searx does not use cookies but there are other ways of tracking individual browsers so that is not a guarantee for tracking-free browsing.

[1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/

[2] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances

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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by larkeith on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @09:50AM (#18066279)
I'll second the recommendation of Searx - I appreciate DDG, but it has noticeably worse search performance (relevance of results etc) than Google, while Searx, being a metasearch engine, provides high-quality results but still maintains privacy.
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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by benjaminjackman on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @08:52AM (#18065884)
I really wish iOS allowed for custom search engines, it's hard coded to just google, yahoo, bing, and duckduckgo because then that would allow for this roll-your-own pattern to be accessible when on the phone / tablet (if using an iPhone/iPad).
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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by morganvachon on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @06:53PM (#18071236)
It's only Safari on iOS that doesn't let you change search engines. If you install Firefox you can install any search engine you want and you can customize the search URL. It still uses the Safari engine under the hood, but the user facing bits are a condensed version of desktop Firefox, including tracking protection and sync.
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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by benjaminjackman on Monday October 01, 2018 @09:16PM (#18118099)
... And now if only bookmarklets worked on Firefox on iOS.
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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by fghtr on Friday September 28, 2018 @02:55AM (#18091511)
There is also https://yacy.net, peer-to-peer web search based on FOSS, although the search quality suffers from the lack of users.
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