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EU Search engine incoming: Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index (blog.ecosia.org)

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For the people who have not yet decided on a search engine. The most EU way you can go is Ecosia or Qwant as they are building their own search index.

Ecosia is my personal pick as its also aimed at planting trees and they have quite a good browser alongside it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

@JasSmith BTW... changing your DNS provider is a piece of cake, so censorship on that level would not be very effective unless ALL DNS providers would decide to block something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I work in IT so I can confidently inform you that the vast majority of people do not change their DNS providers. Very few people would know how. Recall that my comment above is not about how easy circumventing censorship is, it was about the censorship existing at all, and how the EU would censor results in a search engine they create.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

@JasSmith I know. IT Admin myself...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@JasSmith My DNS provider is dns0.eu by the way. On all my connections. Solidly based in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I can confirm it's resolving rt.com. I've tested on two ISPs here in Denmark and both block the domain. I'm wondering if there are regional differences in the legislation or edicts.