Search engines
Mojeek privacy rating
British search engine that uses its own crawler and index and states that it does not track users.
Summary
Mojeek scores 55 out of 100 (grade D) on the search engines criteria. It meets 5 of 11 criteria: no trackers or telemetry, TLS configuration, no search history logs, no profile-based ads and no account needed. It partly meets no ads or data sales. It does not meet open source, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests and security headers. It is based in the United Kingdom: Five Eyes member; GDPR-style data protection law; CLOUD Act data access agreement with the US. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade C.
Score 55 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Yes
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
No user tracking, no cookies by default, and IP addresses are not recorded in logs.
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Partial
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Shows contextual ads based on the search query, not on user data.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
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No
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
No transparency report or government request policy is published.
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No
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
No published policy on notifying users about data requests.
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Yes
No search history logs Weight 3 of 3
Are searches stored without IP addresses or other identifiers?
IP addresses are replaced with a country code in logs, so searches are not tied to identifiers.
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Yes
No profile-based ads Weight 2 of 3
Are ads (if any) based only on the current search, not a profile?
Ads are targeted only by keywords in the current search.
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Yes
No account needed Weight 1 of 3
Can every feature be used without an account?
Search and preferences work without an account.
Automated tests
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Yes
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A
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No
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade C (50/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.