I use Qwant as my default search engine because I thought it was more respectful of my privacy than Google or Bing and DuckDuckGo is not giving so good results in my country (for localization related searches).
I noticed that the engine was removed from the default engines for URL bar in latest IronFox version. So I searched a bit about why so, and found this issue in their tracker : https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/47.
What to think about this ? The message from ironfox dev seems clear but qwant seems to claim that the shared data are anonymized.
i was asked about https://search.lilo.org recently. They’re trying to attract attention through solidarity, kind of like Ecosia.
They claim “nous ne conservons et ne revendons aucune donnée personnelle” but Clarity is there under the hood and when you read further (more click/touch is necessary to see this)
Same as qwant: We respect your privacy, but we’re giving all this information to Microsoft