A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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You can find new instances here: https://searx.space
You might also want to give Kagi a try. It’s paid though.
TIL about searXNG
Lots of other choices : https://searx.space
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Agreed. Trust is always a thing on the Internet. And uptime too. searx.be / yewtu.be (From the same person. They posted when their previous provider took them down) has been stable and useful for me for a long time. I do trust Disroot and they have search too : https://search.disroot.org If it does not work you can complain via their XMPP chat, or file a bug at one of their other services.
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Interesting. Do you have sources for this statement ?
note that basically any ISP will intercept traffic if asked by a government - they’re literally legally required ro
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Thank you.
Or you can host your own instance quite easily. If you want just a new instance, pick one from the list above. Everyone who intends to run a public instance can enter it there and you’re sure, that this person intends that instance to be public.
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I pipe mine through a vpn, should look like anyone elses searches…
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Not so sure about that, are SearXNG immeadiately identifiable as such, if not it just looks like any other search. Also does the evil eye actuaully care about edge cases like self hosted SearXNG? Still, might be nice to rotate the exit node…
ETA I also keep google off for default searches, and use it by bang only when other things fail, a rare occurrence.
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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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.