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 ===Search Engines===
-- <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Cyberduck_icon.png/1024px-Cyberduck_icon.png" height="16"/> **[DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com/)** (**Beginner Tip**) is probably the most well known and feature-rich privacy-friendly web search engine.
+* '''[https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo]''' ('''Beginner Tip''') is probably the most well known and feature-rich privacy-friendly web search engine.
-❗️Beware though the website is hosted on the Amazon cloud.
+* '''[https://www.ecosia.org/Ecosia]''' ('''Environmental Tip''') is not known for being a very privacy friendly search engine (though they are working on it), but for it's "greenness". Ecosia has advertisement, but donates a large portion if it's advertising revenue to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforestationreforestation] projects and other environmental causes.
-- <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/11/Ecosia_logo.png/250px-Ecosia_logo.png" height="16"/> **[Ecosia](https://www.ecosia.org/)** (**Environmental Tip**) is not known for being a very privacy friendly search engine (though they are working on it), but for it's "greenness". Ecosia has advertisement, but donates a large portion if it's advertising revenue to [reforestation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforestation) projects and other environmental causes.
+❗️Ecosia is hosted on Clpudflare and their image search depends on Bing (Microsoft), but the websearch works even if you block connections to Bing.
-❗️Ecosia is hosted on Clpudflare and their image search depends on bing, but the websearch works even if you block connections to bing.
 I use Ecosia as my primary search engine, because sometimes you have to prioritize and I think saving the planet is more important than my privacy. Also I am quite confident I am doing enough to make sure I'm not leaking too much data while using Ecosia.
-- <img src="https://www.mojeek.com/favicon.ico" height="16"/> **[Mojeek](https://www.mojeek.com/)** (**Privacy Tip**) is a search engine with no tracking whatsoever and a very low environmental impact. It was created in the UK and is hosted on ‘UK’s greenest data center’.
+* '''[https://www.mojeek.com/ Mojeek]''' ('''Privacy Tip''') is a search engine with no tracking whatsoever and a very low environmental impact. It was created in the UK and is hosted on ‘UK’s greenest data center’.
-- Notable mentions: **[Searx](https://www.searx.me/)**, **[Qwant Lite](https://lite.qwant.com/)**, **[Startpage](https://www.startpage.com/)**...
+- Notable mentions: '''[https://www.searx.me/ Searx]''', '''[https://lite.qwant.com/ Qwant Lite]''', '''[https://www.startpage.com/ Startpage]'''...
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