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 month 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 1 month ago
They’ve not been good for like 5 years but I don’t know why.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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 1 month 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.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I’d be curious to know what you learn. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re being rate limited. It seems like the big guys always try to hurt anything that’s not monetizable in any way they can.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 month 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.