With ads i doubt it. Because although they may respect your privacy they aren’t respecting others who they target the ads to.
I am not sure I understand what you are saying here.
They are using the data for a purpose to be able to target ads to people. So although they may respect your privacy when you are using the platform to browse they are using the data to target others to send ads not respecting anyone’s privacy. I don’t want ads. Don’t want to see them, not looking for them. I look only for sites via IP addresses or domain names. I don’t want to go to any site that is full of ads. That’s what i hate about the Internet!
You can still make money off generic advertising and not just targeted ads. Obviously targeted are better but its possible to not abuse user data AND serve ads for ad revenue.
That’s not how targeted advertising works. They cant use your personal browsing data to target ads to another individual as that would no longer be targeted as your tastes doesn’t = someone else’s.
Targeted ads use an algorithm to determine what a specific user will like and what sort of ad is effective based on that specific users data/search/browsing history and habits.
My point is i don’t like it! I don’t like what the Internet has become. Plus i disagree with it. Users don’t like ads targeted to them just because an algorithm say’s so! If i want to look at something i go to the site that has it. I don’t want to fed ad crap because i went there before.
Edit: So what it means is my privacy isn’t respected. Because i don’t want an algorithm to track my browsing habits and send me ad crap.
I don’t disagree, I’m the type to know what I’m looking for and seek out info and not pay attention to ads.
Just making sure the concept of what targeted ads are is clear.
I think you know what I’m getting at. There really isn’t privacy in the grand scheme of things.
I want 
-driven internet!
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I wanna drive! Not be the passenger! I don’t want anyone following me… 
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Well not in its current state unless you put significant efforts into muddying the waters. The current way to maintain privacy on the internet requires containers, site breakage, multiple aliases that you treat and act like completely different people, etc.
You have to shit in the proverbial data pool as it were
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Neeva, Never
But what about WolframAlpha and their business model? Should we be paying for private searching?
I know it’s like beating a dead horse at that point, but still…
https://nitter.net/yegg/status/1528838579455250434
DDG sells data to M$
P.S. Although it seems to be about their browser, when reading comments from DDG CEO & Founder…but still at that point it’s too many red flags all over the place
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Gone!
Reading that, I’m not gone from the DDG search engine… yet, but I have acquired some new headwear.
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More seriously, it’s getting increasingly difficult to avoid the tentacles of the FAMGA monoplists 
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Just use searx/searXNG - selfhosted would be best.
I am not that familiar with searx but if you selfhost an instance locally, doesn’t that expose your search history and IP address to google?
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From my understanding of the underlying engine - it uses get requests - and yes if selfhosted you will expose your public IP. But your history can only be associated with the IP - there is no exposure of private data.
With that in mind - I experimented with Oracle cloud free tier and it is incredibly simple to setup a docker instance.
Where to setup the firewall rules for allowing web access is not that obvious - but need teaches a hungry man to fish.
Feel free to test the results using sx.nix.dk (hosted on a node in Switzerland)
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