I'm hunting around a little for some companies focused on ethical and privacy preserving applications / systems.
The obvious ones that spring to mind are Mozilla, DuckDuckGo and ProtonMail, but does HN have any other examples?
Element messaging group that does Matrix protocol
Qwant and Ecosia for search engines come to mind.
Threema and Signal for messengers.
Mojeek is the only horiziontal search engine with it's own crawler/index and which does not track you. Disclosure: I work at Mojeek.
https://www.mojeek.com/ https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/frequently-asked-questions-a...
Other search engines mentioned here, and many more, are primarily syndication partners of Bing (mostly), Google or Yandex.
https://www.searchenginemap.com/