Search and browse the internet without being tracked or targeted. Startpage is the world's most private search engine. Use Startpage to protect your personal data.
Heard some sketchy stuff about duckduckgo recently, found out about start page.many users?
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.
If you’re not using a vpn on your vps, it’s the same as using google directly. And if you’re only using the vpn on your desktop it’s even worse, since google will just tie you to your VPS ip.
I’d recommend SearXNG instead.
It now has engines for searching lemmy too
Aw, the instance I use doesn’t seem to have it (yet?)
It’s at least available if you’re self-hosting.
Just had a brief look, will look into it more later, but that looks really cool!
Do you have to host it yourself?
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.
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.
If you do that, make it public, or else you can get profiled again.
Whoever wants to can profile as much as they like. My VPN’s always on and I rent the VPS using Monero.
If you’re not using a vpn on your vps, it’s the same as using google directly. And if you’re only using the vpn on your desktop it’s even worse, since google will just tie you to your VPS ip.
More than happy for google to tie my searches to the VPS’ IP.