May I suggest https://mojeek.com as a privacy respecting alternative that actually has its own web crawlers and indexers.

That’s what the FUTO Circles project was supposed to be about, but sadly the project got ditched by the original devs for it only a year after it started. Info on that here - https://youtu.be/OKTOhxeKrK0?si=NKvI6Esp3c33DG96

Geddit also works well as an open source, no-account needed, Reddit browser - https://f-droid.org/packages/geddit.buzl.uk/

The Librewolf project is up to date Firefox core with some hardening and the telemetry going back to Mozilla removed - good stuff.