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Qwant (france-based), startpage (NL-based), searxng (bunch of host options)
honorary mention to Stract which is currently totally useless because the results are so random, but hopefully in a few years it will be a proper alternative. they are indexing the web from scratch in order to not have to rely on existing data from other search engines (which is why the results are terrible right now lol)
Start page was purchased by an ad company a while back
didn't know, that sucks
Yes it does. We have almost no options left any more. They all get ventured capitalisted
FUCK ME.
Yeah, there's no winning
It doesn't appear to be that bad though