Freedom-respecting search engines
The FSF website has a list of webmail hosts that have been assessed for whether they respect user freedom. Does anyone know if there is a similar list for web search portals?
I know there are free code search engine packages like Searx and YaCy, but I'm particularly interested in hosted offerings. Some that could be assessed for possible inclusion in such a list:
* searx.neocities.org - a meta-meta-search portal that sends search queries to a randomly selected Searx instance, from a curated list
* search.creativecommons.org - a meta-search engine specifically for searching CC works
* peertube-index.net - a meta-search engine specifically for seaching PeerTube instances, does its best to filter out NSFW
* search.disroot.org - Searx instance offered and used by the Disroot crew
* searx.me - a popular Searx instance
* duckduckgo.com - a US based search engine that claims to respect user privacy
* qwant.com - an EU based search engine that claims to respect user privacy
* startpage.com - an EU based meta-search engine that users Goggle results but claims to respect user privacy
Any others? Any comments on these?
https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances
This one was on top of the list too, no idea it is not there any more:
http://searxes.nmqnkngye4ct7bgss4bmv5ca3wpa55yugvxen5kz2bbq67lwy6ps54yd.onion/
DuckDuckGo and Qwant both ship proprietary JavaScript by default. Both have versions that are supposedly free of JavaScript: https://duckduckgo.com/html and https://lite.qwant.com
However GNU LibreJS still reports about one "External script with no known license" on https://lite.qwant.com and that script is obfuscated JavaScript: https://lite.qwant.com/js/app.js
https://duckduckgo.com/html is fine: no JavaScript.