Personally, I found people to be overreacting and DuckDuckGo‘s actions reasonable and transparent. Here’s the story:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/

I’ve used Startpage until they got bought by an ad company. Haven’t looked into it since then:

https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company

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Personally, I found people to be overreacting and DuckDuckGo‘s actions reasonable and transparent. Here’s the story:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/

I’ve used Startpage until they got bought by an ad company. Haven’t looked into it since then:

https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company

I’ve been using it on iPad and iPhone.

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id1484498200?l=en

They also offer their own browser: https://browser.kagi.com/

I tested it some time on iOS and it was definitely the closest to google photos I found. The pricing wasn’t appealing to me but I feel like it’s a good service.