Comment on What else should I self-host?

KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • SearxNG (Google Privacy frontend)

  SearXNG is more than just a front end for google results, it’s an aggregator, if configured properly can collect results from Bing, Startpage, Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo, Brave.

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  • scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yacy is a web crawler/search engine that IIRC you can self host and use as a SearXNG backend

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  • KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s correct. Thanks for the correction.

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  • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m no expert, but I read that self hosting your own instance doesn’t actually help with privacy since the search providers still track those requests and if you’re the only one using it, that’s just tracking you with extra steps.

    Of course if you use a public instance, you have to then trust that the instance isn’t tracking you

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    • KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unless you are routing traffic through a VPN.

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      • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I just recently started routing mine through a gluetun container, but now I’m hitting timeouts pretty consistently. Not sure if there’s a solution to that or just deal with it.

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    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While true, they still collect data on the results hosting your own instance can prevent you from hitting rate-limits as often.

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    • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gotta be better than being tracked everywhere… and of course I personally use a vpn (and encrypted traffic to the server)

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• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How safe is it to self host something that you open up to the web? I’ve been thinking about a keepass self host, but I need it to be accessible from anywhere… I’m just really worried what that does once you open up your local server to the world

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  • KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you want to expose a container based service just for yourself over internet, you can -

    • If you have static IP4 or IPV6 - Setup Wireguard VPN on your homelab/server, and wireguard client on client devices[1].

    • If you are behind NAT or CGNAT - either Cloudflared Tunnel[2] or Tailscale[3].

    In either scenarios, you need to setup firewall of your server to allow connection from LAN to port of your docker container/services. By default your firewall should block all incoming request.

    I’m personally using Cloudflared Tunnel, but planning to migrate to Tailscale.

    [1] digitalocean.com/…/how-to-set-up-wireguard-on-ubu…

    [2] developers.cloudflare.com/…/connect-networks/

    [3] tailscale.com

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