eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I’ve been using SearXNG and its predecessor for years and I have no reason to change that. Highly recommend you check it out.
eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I’ve been using SearXNG and its predecessor for years and I have no reason to change that. Highly recommend you check it out.
doodledup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not private though unless you host it on a VPS.
Imhotep@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How would a VPS make it private? honest question, I have a VPS I could use but I always figured it would be linked to one IP, and I would be the only one using it. Doesn’t make much difference compared to home
If I were to share it with a lot of people that would be different I suppose
doodledup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A VPS is used by thousands of users. There is a good chance somebody else hosts a meta search engine aswell. You’re being anonymised by being one of many. It’s admittedly not as good as using DDG (much larger crowd) but definitely better than selfhosting at home.
twei@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
Huh? If your VPS is used by thousands of users you should check for malware. The underlying hypervisor may run lots of VMs from different clients, but your VPS with its own dedicated and publicly routed IP is only used by you (except for if you make your searx instance publicly accessible and list it on searx.space)
eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Doesn’t that apply to any search engine?
doodledup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No. DDG and Mullvad are private search engines as they strip out your trackable metadata and don’t pass on your IP address. If you selfhost your own metasearch engine on your own network you’re not hiding any of that.
whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You are correct about the IP address (searxng uses the IP of the instance) but aren’t metadata stripped or am I reading this wrong? docs.searxng.org/own-instance.html#how-does-searx…
eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
Is that so? How do you know?