With all the talk about privacy, people seem to be forgetting that censorship is also a major problem for today's internet.

Many "alternative" search engines are better for privacy, but they are still vulnerable to censorship, because they rely on ggle and mcrosoft's indices for their search results. This isn't a deep-hidden secret either, many of them disclose what search index they use on the "about" page, for example:

• https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/
• https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/5138782571796-Why-isn-t-a-particular-site-appearing-in-the-results
• https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

There are still search engines that (claim to) maintain their own index. Most surprisingly, brve:

• https://brave.com/search-independence/