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You know that hosting your own instance means unless you’ve people using it you’ll lose anonymity. The big advantage of those public instances is that many people use them mixing your searches with others.

That argument has been seen posted before, but is it really true ? Will Google, Bing, or any of the other search engines that you configure in your SearXNG instance really create a profile based on your searches and then know (SearXNG is supposed to proxy only and not show your real IP) it is you ?

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Yes its true, it’s obvious, all your queries will come from the SearXNG server IP and they’ll eventually match to the the information / account / other addresses they already have on you.

I assume that SearXNG as a proxy will not show your real IP address, nor with it show which monitor resolution and which web browser you use, to the search engines that the instance will query.

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I see your point. One solution : run Pi-hole in your local network to block analytics.

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