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• doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • whysofurious@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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…

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    • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • eneff@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    DDG and Mullvad are private search engines as they strip out your trackable metadata and don’t pass on your IP address.

    Is that so? How do you know?

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