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.
You’re correct that it strips out most of it. But time of search, content of search, IP, ISP and location is more than sufficient for tracking you and building a profile.
doodledup@lemmy.world 21 hours 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.
eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Is that so? How do you know?
whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 21 hours 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…
doodledup@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You’re correct that it strips out most of it. But time of search, content of search, IP, ISP and location is more than sufficient for tracking you and building a profile.