When I truly want to make a private search online, I use DuckDuckGo using a private browsing tab in stock safari using a virtual-PN to different state or country on an cellular unlocked iPhone over a cellular connection(no Wi-Fi).
Not asking for tech support or anything, just curious what y’all think. This good enough? Would y’all do anything different? These steps even work?
Just using a private trustworthy search engine like Startpage and a VPN should be enough. Better than your setup would be using TAILS environment.
Yep, probably good enough.
The next step would be to run your own YaCy instance, and that’s a big step.
You could use Tor as well. It won’t help much, but it will be slightly more private.
A more intermediate but almost equally good middle step between that and TAILS is simply the TOR browser.