Wikipedia didn’t turn evil? The website by Wikimedia who hired an union busting firm when their workers tried to unionize?

XD

Important to note that Qwant still uses the Bing search index everywhere except for France and Germany, where they use the Staan search index, which is being developed together with Ecosia.

I’m sure the more people use it, the faster they can expand, though.

Using it from Finland myself, quite satisfied with it even with this Bing nonsense. Only have to use Google for VERY RARE cases.

Just check their Wikipedia page.

Startpage is owned and operated by Surfboard Holding BV, which is majority owned by System1, an American internet advertising company.

non-US search engine (start page)

Startpage is owned by an American advertising company.

Try Qwant or Ecosia. They’re working together to develop an independent search index (Staan) and it’s already in use in France and Germany.

As per the article:

Before anything could be done to potentially decrease Superfest’s extreme durability, the brand’s parent company, VEB Sachsenglas Schwepnitz, went bankrupt after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

and Wikipedia:

With the political change, the GDR glass industry and its scientific institutions began to be wound down.

this would appear to be a result of East Germany being annexed into the capitalist West Germany, which happened 9 November 1989 – 3 October 1990.

Without commenting on East Germany, the annexation was handled terribly, and it’s the reason AFD is rising in popularity in eastern Germany these days.