Cliqz

We were building browsers and an independent search engine. We hope someone else continues our fight for a safe, fair and open Internet.

[Cliqz @cliqz]

Cliqz is dead, Long Live Cliqz: the Cliqz search engine build with love by the Cliqz team over a decade is now Brave Search - the only non big-tech real search engine.

Sign up for the waiting list here: https://t.co/b81w1Sw9B3

[Cliqz @cliqz]

@caillouwithnaxe Thank you for being a long term user and supporter of @cliqz. We focus on the @Ghostery browser and you can join the beta test here: https://t.co/RJ64Pq77Ew

[metatheory @metatheory1]

Just heard that @cliqz will no longer be working on private search and their accompanying browser. Sad news as the baddies win again :( #onlineprivacy

[Cliqz @cliqz]

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[Cliqz @cliqz]

@JKOcgn We're looking for a solution what we do with the browsers and what to recommend you. The browsers will be maintained by the team until we announce a good solution!

[🐘 @[email protected] @PetCryptid]

@cliqz Daaaamn. Good night, sweet prince. You were truely too good for this world.
I'll keep the Tech @ Cliqz dat archive seeded, you heroes deserve to have your story kept up.

[Cliqz @cliqz]

@nextwebsearch Yes ☹️

[Follow @ryanfeeley.com on Bluesky @ryanfeeley]

This is a terrible loss for privacy on the web, especially Germany. Search history can contain your most private thoughts. Cliqz integrated a privacy-respecting search engine right into the browser. Also, a remarkably productive and friendly team when I visited.

[Gonz @gonsanchezs]

First, Cliqz' challenge was enormous.

Unlike DuckDuckGo who sits on Google's search index, Cliqz was trying to build a completely new one.

That is an order of magnitude harder and they did a great job: hundreds of thousands of DAUs.

Hat tip to them.

[Rossoglou Kostas @kostasrossoglou]

The latest victim of online search market Google monopoly! Effective and timely antitrust enforcement is crucial to protect competition and consumer choice in the time of the COVID19 pandemic

[DataEthics @DataEthicsEU]

So bad news. So hard to make money on privacy. Even ⁦@vestager⁩ has said publicly that she uses Cliqz 😢 https://t.co/PZBXsoQ4SY

[Pernille Tranberg @PernilleT]

@MarcAlHames @cliqz Damn it. This is so bad news. So sorry. Have been advocating so strongly for you. 😥😥😥 Even @vestager is a Cliqz user

[Konark Modi @konarkmodi]

If you or companies you know are hiring, you should definitely get in touch with @cliqz employees. They are one of the brightest and amazing people to work with. My DMs are open and I am more than happy to make introductions.

[Konark Modi @konarkmodi]

The journey of @cliqz comes to an end. Building search engine, browsers & privacy enhancing tech from scratch is not easy, yet we did it.

Incredibly proud of the team, the products & the tech we built over the last decade.

Huge shoutout to all the Cliqz users who kept us going

[Cliqz @cliqz]

Yesterday we've announced the end of Cliqz and our hearts are still heavy. We hope someone continues this important fight for digital independence. But for now: Thanks for believing in something that was unlikely from the beginning, but worth believing in. https://t.co/Io6eF6IhmW

[Madalina Diana Sandu @Tweetkindl]

I am extremely grateful for my journey of 11 yrs and 89 days pushing for our mission to become reality from day 1 of @cliqz .I loved every bit of it thanks to the wonderful #cliqzers and their tireless efforts to overcome all hurdles (which sometimes seemed impossible).Thank you!

[Jamie Birch @birch_js]

@MarcAlHames @chrmod @cliqz Very sorry to hear that, Marc – loved the idea behind Cliqz, the passion in the team, and following all the updates. It's a great shame for things to go this way, as the world really needs a privacy-first web browser.

Best of luck to all the Cliqz folks on their next endeavours.

[Dominik Schmidt @domlancs]

This is very sad, and still hard to comprehend. I'll miss working with everyone @cliqz—such a great team!

[Daniel 🚀 Jay @breakthesystem]

Just heard that @cliqz is closing down Browser and S earch — Those are sad news! Cliqz Browser has been a paragon of privacy online, and I had the pleasure of working with incredibly skilled people when creating the iOS version. Hope everyone lands on their feet. S

[Cliqz @cliqz]

@Nellinson We already know about it 😭 Unfortunately, we can't do anything about it. Twitter doesn't support Firefox and therefore, we also have those bugs in the Cliqz browser ☹️ Reporting your problems to Twitter could help us! Thank you very much! 🙏