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 month 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 month 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)
doodledup@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you get a static IPv4 yes that’s true.