We’re all very used to being surveilled by now, especially through surveillance capitalism, or the commodification of our personal data - our age, location, mental state, shopping habits, tax bracket, are collected through various apps and websites and sold to thousands of third parties. On top of that, governments surveil their citizens, and it does not only happen in authoritarian States such as Russia, it also happens in the United States as well, where activists are watched by authorities during and after lawful protests.

Looking at how pervasive tech enabled surveillance is, once you’re aware, it feels like living in a dystopia. Who needs to read Orwell’s 1984 when you can just look into civil society’s reports on mass surveillance or read the news? What we need are anti-surveillance alternatives, such as a search engine that, unlike G ...