Not particularly shady
Startpage was bought by a shady company a while back. Mullvad has been a trustworthy company so far. I’ve been a long-time startpage user and I’m glad there’s a better alternative.
easily3667@lemmus.org 20 hours ago
Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Word. That’s good to know. I’ll give it a shot.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’m in exactly the same situation. I’ve noticed worse and worse ads on Startpage, and they seem to find new ways around uBO so it’s a constant battle. Not to mention the news tab on Startpage forcing me to view almost everything via MSN, making it useless.
Sear XNG instances work great, when they’re up, but turns out there are no very reliable public instances (which, to be clear, is totally understandable … but often I find myself searching things in a pinch, and I don’t want “how to stop the bleeding” with no results on searx.tiekoetter.com to be the last thing my loved ones find on my phonescreen).
I’m totally giving this one a shot for a while.
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 day ago
What’s the deal with SearXNG instances being down? Is it resource constraints, or are the big search engines rate limiting them?
easily3667@lemmus.org 20 hours ago
They’ve not been good for like 5 years but I don’t know why.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
I’m not entirely sure, but even the best ones seem to have like a 66% chance of actually working when you need it.
boonhet@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Hmm now I want to spin up an instance and add a bunch of logging and traces and stuff.
I might do it over the weekend if I have time.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I’m also curious, I spent more time figuring with SearXNG than being able to use it, and one of the numerous issues was no server seemed to stay up and they were slow when they were up.