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I have recently changed all my browser links on my phone to DuckDuckGo linking to qwant.com (EU search engine, surprisingly good, if occasionally flakey). There are times I miss Google, but very rarely do I find a lack of suitable responses.

I trust the French on user privacy and it is surprisingly popular in France.

I will still use Google, with uBlock, for the sole purpose of browsing Facebook. As I do not want or trust FB not to fingerprint my browser. But I have to physically scroll through the Apps list to find Chrome.so 99% of the time I just click DDG (and ruthlessly disable all privacy and ad settings in Google and FB).