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 7 hours 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 6 hours ago
If you get a static IPv4 yes that’s true.