Fynd Developer Blog
Date Posted: May 2026
Privacy online is getting harder and harder to find. Most search engines keep track of what people search for, what they click on, where they go, and what they are interested in. That information is often used to build profiles about people for advertising.
Fynd was built differently.
The whole point of Fynd is to help people search the web and discover websites, not collect information about people. Searches are not shared with third parties. Fynd does not believe your searches should be turned into a product.
A lot of search engines today want to keep users inside their own systems instead of sending people to websites. Fynd believes websites, blogs, forums, businesses, and creators deserve visitors and traffic.
Like every website and online service, Fynd servers do keep Linux system logs for security and server operation reasons. Those logs rotate normally as part of the operating system and are not part of some giant long-term tracking system.
In the future, Fynd may show limited ads based only on the search being made at that moment. For example, if someone searches for basketball shoes, they may see an ad for basketball shoes. That is very different from following people around the internet and building profiles on them over time.
Truly independent search engines like Fynd are already rare. Privacy-focused independent search engines are even more rare.
That is why Fynd is likely one of the most privacy-respecting search engines that exists today.
Eventually there will be sections on the site that go deeper into topics like this. Right now Fynd is still in the early stages, but we wanted people to know where we stand from the beginning.
Search engines should help people discover the web, not help companies discover everything about people.