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WaterfoxPrivate Search

No ads. No tracking.
Just search.

Waterfox Private Search is a subscription search engine. You pay $5 a month - so advertisers don't pay for your attention, and no profile of you ever exists.

See what live searches look like:

WebImagesVideosNews
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Why paid search

You aren't the product.

A search engine paid by advertisers has to know who you are - one paid by you doesn't

Zero ads

Results are ranked for relevance, not revenue. There is nothing sponsored to scroll past - the first result is the best one we found.

No tracking

No third-party cookies, no fingerprinting, no ad-tech pixels. What you search for stays on your side of the screen.

No search history

Queries are never logged. We couldn't hand over your history if we were asked - it doesn't exist.

No profile of you

Ad companies build a dossier from every query. We can't sell what we never build - there is no advertising profile, anywhere.

One honest price

$5 a month is the entire business model. You pay us; nobody else does.

Encrypted by default

Every query is encrypted in transit and anonymised before it touches an index. Your subscription is never linked to what you search.

Compare

Same web, different business model.

“Free” search engines are among the most profitable products ever built. The difference is who pays, and with what.

Waterfox Private Search compared with free search engines
What you getWaterfoxFree search engines
Ads in resultsNone, everOften the whole first screen
Tracking & profilingNone - nothing to track withThe core of the business
Search historyNever storedLogged and linked to you
Who the customer isYouAdvertisers
What it costs$5/monthYour data and attention

Pricing

One plan. Everything included.

No tiers to decode, no yearly lock-in to regret. We'd rather earn your $5 every month.

Private Search

3-day free trial
$5/ month

Try it free for 3 days. Cancel before the trial ends and pay nothing.

  • Unlimited private searches
  • Web, image, video & news search
  • No ads, no trackers, no history
  • Works as your browser's default engine
  • Cancel anytime, in one click
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FAQ

Fair questions