To anyone who knows more about this: does this actually do anything particularly unique to avoid collecting user data, or is it basically just “trust us bro” and we just need to rely on the privacy policy and so on? It seems like DuckDuckGo but European everything (and with more of an AI focus) from my reading here.
Nice initiative! The bad name alone might be enough to sink it though.
Looks and sounds like some late 90s cyber something.
That or an adult site
Are you really going to say that about an industry where the other search engine names are…
checks notes
Ask Jeeves, Google, Bing, SearXNG, DuckDuckGo, Lycos… ?
At least AltaVista was nice
It sounds like an antidepressant brand name.
Me: What is the truth behind xprivo? Xprivo: I’m not sure what “xprivo” refers to.
Good, no self awareness! 😁
elon made me instinctively avoid anything with x in it where x isn’t part of a real word.
What is the business model? The way they emphasize AI features, it sounds venture capital-ish and thus prone to enshittification.
Ads in search and on the AI page
I dont like that they put ads as the first search result
Also above the text box with the AI chat. It’s quicker than Claude though so I’m assuming it’s not as processor intensive which is a good thing for quick shizz.
Claude 🤢
What a name…
Edit: What I say below is no longer true. They seemed to fix it
The query
anti-fascism
results in funny results. The first page has absolutely nothing about fascism (nor anti-fascism) and it’s only when you click on “show me more” that you actually get anti-fascism results.
