That’s correct. Thanks for the correction.
Comment on What else should I self-host?
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Unless you are routing traffic through a VPN.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
For which self-hosted app? Invidious?
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
While true, they still collect data on the results hosting your own instance can prevent you from hitting rate-limits as often.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 2 weeks ago
Gotta be better than being tracked everywhere… and of course I personally use a vpn (and encrypted traffic to the server)
scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Yacy is a web crawler/search engine that IIRC you can self host and use as a SearXNG backend