Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results

• 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…

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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