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      1 # The Big Three (Privacy) Search Engines
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      3 The big three privacy search engines are 1) Brave Search 2) DuckDuckGo 3) Startpage. These are the most popular privacy search engines because they generally provide sensible enough results, have privacy policies that aren't anti-consumer, and make sensible technical decisions that are verifiable by looking at the requests browsers make to their search engines to minimize tracking.
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      5 ## Indices
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      7 Brave Search uses its own index. 
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      9 DuckDuckGo primarily uses Bing.
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     11 Startpage primarily uses Google.
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     13 ## Quality Comparison
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     15 ## IP Rotation and Browser Fingerprint
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     17 Every day I switched exit nodes using the protonvpn cli. I also cleared all cached data from librewolf at the end of the day.