Privacytools.io: 🆕 Software Suggestion | Swisscows

[wuniversales]

Name: Swisscows
Category: Search Engine
URL: https://swisscows.com/

Safe search engine, no logs, no ip leak... (At least they say so)
https://swisscows.com/en/about#privacy-data

[LizMcIntyre]

I've tried Swisscows and have found the results to be good -- esp. with the symantic mapping feature. It's surprising how different the results can be with a few tweaks.

The privacy policy and other information looks promising, as you note, wuniversales. Would they be willing to answer the Questions to Ask all Privacy Companies?

[smnthermes]

Suspicious. In every search there are results like this:

http://www.smartredirect.de/redir/clickGate.php?u=Pr6dLdBs&m=12&p=8PtMZHWq0t&q=ok%20boomer&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2F2019%2F11%2F19%2F20963757%2Fwhat-is-ok-boomer-meme-about-meaning-gen-z-millennials&r=https%3A%2F%2Fswisscows.ch%3Fquery%3Dok%20boomer

[smnthermes]

The domain smartredirect.de is included in some blocklists.

Edit: when accessing it:

This server belongs to adgoal (www.adgoal.net)

[nitrohorse]

Linking the Discourse discussion for reference. Notably their privacy policy looks reasonable and they have a unique company stance for creating a “family-friendly internet“ that in turn affects how they filter search results:

1. We promote moral values. 2. We hate violence and pornography. 3. We promote digital media education. - https://swisscows.com/en/about

[nitrohorse]

The domain smartredirect.de is included in some blocklists.

Edit: when accessing it:

This server belongs to adgoal (www.adgoal.net)

Yeah, looks like the top 3 items for search results are ad-based which have the redirects (swisscows.ch##.sales).