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I can’t say if the servers themselves reside on US soil but the companies office certainly do, while I admit I was hesitant to give them my money I got tired of being rate limited by Bing/DDG/Startpage on my SearXNG instance, even though I don’t make many requests they do not like aggregator engines, and I sure as hell didn’t want want my server touching Google servers regularly.

Settled with the least worst option available I’d say.

I switched and never looked back nearly 5 years ago.

Bought my own domain shortly afterwards and with Proton Pass I can generate unique emails per website using that domain, you don’t need a domain as you can use protons domains but it’s nice to have your own, can also easily disable problematic emails that cause spam.

I pay per search using their APi and my SearXNG instance, it’s like ¢0.03 per search which I capped to $5 a month, we’re currently on the 23rd of October and I owe them a whopping $2.03, I usually don’t hit that $5 limit.

I only wish they weren’t an American company.