I'm experimenting with Ghostery's Private Search after using DuckDuckGo. It works well, although it does not offer image or similar searches. The interface is clean and provides links to Brave, Bing, and Google searches below.
I needed a filter for Vivaldi's ad blocker to hide YouTube Shorts. Here's the post and filter from the Vivaldi forum moderator. The filter proved effective in my Vivaldi Desktop test. It should work with Vivaldi on your other devices, too.
Post:
BLOCK shorts/reels/doomscrolling
Code:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/LonMcGregor/c8d940794706c3a02be60c6f9c84c0cc/raw/e91c3907ec75ec6be26d4d98a43b7355cf15dfb8/blockytshorts.txt