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This is cool, but how is it privacy-preserving? The server gets to see my exact search terms, and also which tile areas I'm zooming in on.

Is it just that it's not linked to an account? If so, openrouteservice fits the same bill: https://maps.openrouteservice.org/

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Trying out the live map, it does seem like "just" a much, much nicer interface to openstreetmap. And it does seem to do routing, but openrouteservice is something that I use when I plan a multi-day hike in the mountains, while qwant knows/shows the opening hours of shops around me, more like google maps.

The two seem to be quite complementary. Each seems to beat google maps in their own arena, at least where I live.

StreetComplete has been collecting business hours for OSM, that is likely where this data is coming from.

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