I feel like there are probably some ad based search engines which are privacy and service oriented, but in general even for those there remains a misalignment problem. Hence if I don’t want to be a product now or in the future, what good search engines are there that I can pay for?

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    You can pay me and I’ll setup a searxng instance for you if you want.

    Or just use the free ones, mine is here

    Kagi is the only paid search ive heard of but its more of a AI company that just happened to have a search engine as their most successful product. Consider reading this before switching to them: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

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      holy shit they fixed the issue which made it really difficult to use on mobile. I might actually consider switching off duckduckgo

      if you searched something and pressed the images tab then back swiped it would go back to the homepage and not to the homepage of your search results