Opinions are great and we welcome them as long as they are in a respectful manner which 99% of the community adheres to. As @Miki notes, it’s the rude remarks, condescending comments and name calling that we don’t need here. Special thanks to you 99% that understand how to be nice to others.
Rule #2 explains this as clear as possible…
Be kind to each other. It’s OK to disagree but do it in a nice way.
I guess I need a life, too! I got over 79K posts read. 
What was the name of this topic again? My phone won’t scroll down that far!
I guess I do too…it appears I have read a few posts in here lmao.
I think that’s why I need help. 135,000 and counting. 
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” Reading is fundamental! 
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for about 2 years now.even have and alias email from them also.
I’ll throw in what I used to use. Searx. This is what I guess you call a meta search engine. You find an instance of it and set it as your search engine in whatever browser you utilize. There are quite a few instances of it. If you search searx instances you’ll get the website to go to pick which you want to use. I had always used searx.be If you type that into your address bar it’ll take you to the main page. There is a preference setting to use. You can select duckduckgo, brave,bing, yahoo, google and others. You pick what you want. When you then do a search, searx will query all those search engines and give you the results of your search. Each result will tell you where the result came from. The nice part is searx is a go between so none of those search engines can track your IP to show you ads and such. The searx “program” is open source on github. I used to run my own searx instance on my Linux computer. Anyhow, this is a good alternative for zero tracking from any search engine. I will say, sometimes some search engines that you have picked in preferences “time out” and you don’t get results from them. Anyhow, personally now I use Kagi. I know we are about cost cutting, but I subscribe to Kagi search engine. Since it’s a paid service there is zero tracking and no Ads. Proton (which I also use and pay for) actually suggests that search engine in one of their blog posts.
It says Searx is no longer maintained.
I did not realize this. I used it awhile ago. There are still instances of searx available. Public ones like https://searx.be Doing a quick search myself, I see there was a fork created on github by I believe one of the original contributors to searx. This is searxng. It appears that github is still maintained as opposed to searx which is in maintenance mode. It looks like searxng is basically the same service. I would assume there is instructions on how to host your own instance on your own computer like I did with searx. The majority of people use a public instance of it. I have not delved into searxng since I have decided to use Kagi search as my main search engine.
I appologize for not researching into searx (which still does work) before posting and not knowing it is maintenance listed and archived. But again, public instances do still work. I did try https://searx.be before posting to make sure. And my old eyes didn’t realize, when you use https://searx.be/, on the home page it says SearxNG. Glaringly obvious but I missed it. At the bottom it has links for the source code, issue tracker, and contact for the instance maintainer.
Just a quick edit. Here is the instructions I found for installing it yourself on linux. Step by step installation — SearXNG Documentation (2024.8.21+2033f30c8)
No problem, Trooper10173. Stay safe out there.
Thanks, I try and stay vigilant at work.