to be honest: i have no idea

it could be perfectly safe; it could be very unsafe

because of that i’m currently using startpage

• kinda based in europe
• iirc the company that owns it is american though
• uses google’s search results ._.
• doesn’t do any ai stuff iirc

while trying to minimize my web searches by

• typing in domains instead of searching for them
• using bookmarks
• using firefox search shortcuts to use a websites built-in search
• using offline stuff
  • linux man pages
  • python help()
  • etc

their commitment to env. activities is sincere

I somewhat had this opinion as well, but by jumping on the ai hype train they threw this commitment out of the window imo

Edit: sadly I don’t have any real european alternatives (that aren’t just using google or bing results) as the only other one that (partly) uses an eu-based web index is qwant, which is in no small part funded by Axel Springer and iirc a previous ceo went on to create a sourveillance company (which kinda seems fishy)

thank you so much!! just had a blast rewatching it after not having seen it for a long time. i guess the “code brown” joke (the president shitting his pants) is more current than ever.