Unless you are routing traffic through a VPN.
Comment on What else should I self-host?
SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 8 months agoI’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 8 months ago
nfreak@lemmy.ml 8 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.
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
For which self-hosted app? Invidious?
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 8 months 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 8 months ago
Gotta be better than being tracked everywhere… and of course I personally use a vpn (and encrypted traffic to the server)