That’s a goal, but it’s hardly the only goal.

My goal is to get a synthesis of search results across multiple engines while eliminating tracking URLs and other garbage. In short it’s a better UX.fir me first and foremost. Privacy (through elimination of cookies and browser fingerprinting) is just a convenient side effect.

And it’s absolutely false to say you get the same effect. Intermediating my access to those search engines means things like cookies and fingerprinting cannot be used to link my search history to my browsing activity.

Furthermore, in my case I host SearX on a VPS that’s independent of my broadband connection which means even IP can’t be used to correlate my activity.