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[***as a non-partisan, independent thinker I put “RandomCurrentEvent pros cons” in the search box)
If you want to get rid of that kind of stuff and are kinda into self hosting (even with docker) you can take a look at SearXNG. It’s a search engine aggregator. For the last year now I use it to find results on the web. No fuss, no AI, no political bullcrap. Search with the search engines you want. Google ? Brave ? Qwant ? DuckDuckGo ? It will search all of them and report the result back to you similar to google list.
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I tried it once OOTB (I had no idea how to configure).
First thing I did was search for something innocuous–I remember it was a car part I need which was O2 sensor for my jeep…
…in the top 10 results were two bestiality websites. I uninstalled it immediately. I like a free internet, too, but man…harsh was my first and only impression.
It’s odd because something like that never happened to me even when I disable safesearch. Most of the options are directly on the settings in the search engine page. There is no voodoo unless you want to start to tinker with the internals. But I understand that’s not something you want to see for a first impression.
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I always liked how that search engine operated (mega-aggregate) and always intended to try it again.
Maybe ‘O2 sensor jeep’ was animal-pervert code talk for something else but I don’t really need to know :). Thanks for getting back on that, it was a weird first try and probably an anomaly.
Must have been a bug or something. I don’t see O2 sensor jeep being anything related to bestiality at least to my knowledge 
Otherwise there is Whoogle which is similar to SearXNG but mostly for google.
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Mullvad Leta Backend Now Available!
As of 16 January, 2025, Google seemingly no longer supports performing search queries without JavaScript enabled. We have made multiple workarounds, but as of 2 October 2025, Google has killed off all remaining methods we had to retrieve results from them originally. While we work to rebuild and hopefully find new ways to continue on, we have released a stopgap which uses Mullvad Leta (an alternative privacy-focused search backend) as the default (but disable-able) backend leveraging their Google results.
Leta is now enabled by default. It provides anonymous search results through Mullvad’s infrastructure without requiring JavaScript. While Leta doesn’t support image, video, news, or map searches, it provides privacy-focused web search results.
To switch back to Google (if it becomes available again), you can disable Leta in the config settings or set
WHOOGLE_CONFIG_USE_LETA=0in your environment variables. See LETA_INTEGRATION.md for more details.
It is pretty much useless, no images, no videos, just a wall of text:
But no 
sites 
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What’s your requirements for a search engine?
All of them have seemingly pros and cons.
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absence of trauma 
@xircon I almost posted a thread about ‘has anyone tried mullvad leta’ so it’s good to know this
I’m still using Startpage, after being bought by an adtech company, they didn’t change their privacy policy and their HQ is still in the EU.
It’s a good Google proxy, no sponsored links and no profiling.
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You should be able to customize brave search via search.brave.com/settings, which would set a cookie with your preferences.
I’ve tested it here, and you can get rid of that “GroundNews” like feature by changing the region to “all” instead of the US.
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I was going too suggest some search engines but this is beyond the scope of what can be “treated” here 
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