Self-host yourself is the safest option, I do.
SearXNG, there’s nothing much else to say.
Liftoff’s UI is pretty terrible but the functionality and the snappyness of it is absolutely the strong point.
To keep posts, comments is unlikely to happen. Transferring the sub list and bookmarks or just exporting them should be in the near future, at least with 3rd party apps.
MITM is the endgame
Huge red flag, I always think France as one of the most free country, I’m so wrong.
They are less invasive on the privacy front, but they also push their products much harder down user’s throat due to less revenue from less accurate ads, just look at DDG’s frontpage.
I also found them self-censoring towards IPs from China, albeit this could be the direct result of using Bing’s search results.
It’s much easier to compare it with something like SearXNG which has the same core principle, without ads, without censorships, without invasive marketing.
To me, Brave or DuckDuckGo are as malicious as Google
Is it open source though?
I don’t personally want any affiliation with Microsoft, someone please do this, I’ve searched the issues and there are no opening issues about this one.