Six quick questions. Honest answers. Nothing you tap here is sent anywhere, it all stays in your browser, which is rather the point.
Are you signed into a Google account while searching?
Is Web & App Activity left on (the default)?
Do you search on a phone with location services on?
Do you watch YouTube signed in?
Do you use an Android phone or Chrome?
Have you ever left personalized ads turned on?
Bare is a private search engine with no account, no history, and no behavioral tracking. The whole site needs none of the data this checker asks about.
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