Comment on What else should I self-host?

• scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s correct. Thanks for the correction.

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• SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless you are routing traffic through a VPN.

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    • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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      • KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For which self-hosted app? Invidious?

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  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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