Heard some sketchy stuff about duckduckgo recently, found out about start page.many users?

    • Prunebutt@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Nope. Nor should you, if you’d only use it yourself, since pooling is integral if you don’t want to be profiled.

      There are public instances at Searx.space.

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        I take the opposite view - you definitely should host it yourself. Any public instance you don’t directly control can insert any sort of code they want to.

        A cheap VPS, rented using Monero, with SearXNG on it ensures privacy.

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          That is the point, If you want to go really private, there is no other to self host on a own server. If not, it’s better to use any of the other “normal” search engine with a good reputation. the privacy it has you can check with the services above mencioned., and to repeat until boredom: important to read TOS and PP to avoid surprises. These are legally binding documents, that is, if they do strange things with your data, without specifying it in this texts, a ton of bricks can fall on them with million-dollar complaints.