#meaning websites you go on won't be able to read your cookies from other sites unlike other browsers

[hychlorions]

hello! you are free to ignore but if you dont mind to answer, i want to switch to firefox, but i cant understand what search engine to use because it still uses google as a search engine but there arent really other options that i know of :(( do i need to change that or do i just keep google?? thanks and love your art :)

quick disclaimer that i'm not a tech person so some of this stuff may be wrong, but i've tried to switch to ecosia and oceanhero, which apparently won't collect as much data as google, but it doesn't really return good results for a lot of the more specific searches, like when you're looking for a phrase in a webpage instead of the webpage itself. that isn't really ideal for a student like me, so i haven't really switched away from google, which imo kind of defeats the whole privacy thing, but i've also got the firefox multi-account containers extension, which, in addition to letting you login to multiple accounts per site, apparently keeps separate cookies per container, so it's not really much of a dealbreaker for me to have to keep using google. otherwise, if you really would like to stop using google and the whole search specificity thing isn't really a bother for you, i've heard some pretty good things about ecosia and duckduckgo as well 030

tl;dr: what you decide to do depends on what you're looking for in a search engine. more specific searches = google; more privacy = ecosia, duckduckgo; microsoft rewards and uh... r18+ stuff? = bing, apparently?