https://www.notebookcheck.net/Reviews.55.0.html

Notebookcheck often does reviews of miniPCs, while they don’t have a dedicated toggly for miniPC (at least on this page), you can filter by brand which should get you pretty close.

https://liliputing.com/

Liliputing covers mini-PCs, but reviews are rather rare.

I used to use StartPage in the late 2010s, it was a good Google search proxy.

They got bought out by an online marketing company called System1 (that recently went public), I dropped StartPage and switched back to mainline Google.

They say that the StartPage team is seperate, which is almost certainly true, but that’s not a guarantee of anything. They do use contextual ads, but that’s a massive step up compared to behavioural advertising.

StartPage even states that:

“Startpage submits your query anonymously, then returns the results to you privately. Google and our results providers never see you and do not know who made the request, seeing only Startpage.”

However, they don’t provide specifics; what does “never see you and do not know who made the request” mean? Does Google not get the IP of the query? How do they manage Google security requirements?

I am now on Ecosia for a few years for Google proxy search. They unfortunately send Google your IP with your queries.

I think it’s fine that Waterfox has this deal with StartPage and their in-built blockers has the ads whitelisted. This is not that big of deal.

IMO, you should never use in-built blockers made by the browser, it’s simply better to have this feature managed by a separate extension. A browser maker shouldn’t make the call around what and how you block, there is a fundamental conflict of incentives and even goals in this area.

I.e. Only use UBO! UBO is well respected, last time that I checked the UBO project doesn’t even accept donations.