Been using SearXNG for about a year now, and I just can’t deal with instances constantly getting blocked by search engines anymore. So I’d like to find something a bit more reliable. I’ve read that DuckDuckGo has had some controversies in the past, and I wouldn’t touch Brave with a 39 and a half foot pole.

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    1 year ago

    Search (pun) for a SearxNG (read as searching) instance.

    It’s an open source meta search engine. You can make it even more private if you selfhost it.

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      OP said they want to stop using SearxNG.

      Also, selfhosting it makesist less privacy friendly, if you are hosting it only for yourself, as the search engines your instance is contacting can easily determine that all those searches are coming from a same IP. Sp, even if it is preventing the telemetry collection, a detailed profile can be made on the person hosting it. Butiff multiple people are using it, profiling becomes difficult. Same is the case with using self-hosted VPNs. They are good against censorship and for some other things, but not for privacy.

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        Oh, thank you for correcting me! It’s right there and I didn’t see it. My bad.

        You raise good points. I confess I hadn’t thought about it like that. So, not only you corrected me, you also enlightened me. I’m today’s lucky 10000!

        Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano'; is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.