Re: EWW with Duck-Duck-Go

On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Stéphane Marks <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > > But we are getting very "tangent" here.  So: what are good ways to
> > > search the internet from within Emacs?
> >
> >
> > VPN and careful anonymity.
>
> Which means concretely?  What kind of search engine do you use, and how?
> The safest connection is useless if you send the data to somewhere where
> it is not safe.  Or if it doesn't work from within Emacs.
>

For me, generally, it's VPN, clear cookies, ddg (less complete index but
for popular things, it's fine) and Google (better index) with some help (a
few packages make things a little nicer).  But much of the time I don't
care because I don't create a data trail I care much about, not that I'm
"daring" anyone to do anything about it.  I'm not a "person of interest" I
hope.