(Although Tor users can of course choose to browse directly to use Google if they wish - with all the baked in tracking that searching via Google entails.)ĭisconnect became the default search provider for Tor back in May 2015. It is still possible for Tor users to specify they wish to search via Bing (or Yahoo) via Disconnect. While Disconnect is still trying to fix the situation we asked them to change the fallback to DuckDuckGo as their search results are strictly better than the ones Bing delivers. Disconnect being more a meta search engine which allows users to choose between different search providers fell back to delivering Bing search results which were basically unacceptable quality-wise. Or a while now Disconnect has no access to Google search results anymore which we used in Tor Browser. In a note on what it dubs its “search engine situation” the pro-privacy browsing netTor users are currently being served DuckDuckGo search results by default.work confirms it is still using privacy tool Disconnect as its search provider but has asked it to switch to DDG results, owing to an issue with Disconnect’s access to Google’s search results.

Tor users are currently being served DuckDuckGo search results by default.

Tor search engine 2016