… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!
I run it in a container on Kubernetes. Definitely recommend.
There is also a list of publicly operated SearXNG instances at https://searx.space/. We host the one at https://search.freestater.org/, and there are plenty of other good ones.
Who says they are securely operated and don’t store any data??
The devs at SearXNG have a bot that regularly scans the public instances for changes to the source code and delists them as a public instance if it’s altered.
If you go to https://searx.space/, they show the results of the scans for each instance.
The software is free and open source. You are encouraged to inspect the code yourself to make sure no data is collected!
Here is the source code:
Thank you very much for proving what’s correct :)
If you’re using a shared IP, it doesn’t matter.
You are using a VPN or Tor, right?!?
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It’s not federated tho?
What do they mean when they call it that?
Thanks for posting, both a great reminder to try setting this up on my unraid, and also to add the RSS feed of that site to Feeder.
I just added it too, I had read a few articles of them already
The search engines that searxng interact with still track you. For this reason I will always use a public instance to mix up the tracking with everyone else using it.
Explain?
Using a public instance is more private than using a private selfhosted instance.
…a public Lemmy instance? How is that related to the the search engine?
a public SearXNG instance
044en17rl is right I meant a public seaxng instance.
BSD FTW
Is metasearch really the best we can do? What about YaCy, or something else more like that?
Brave is a search engine?
That’s news to me.Brave have they’re own search engine
