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

  • Prunebutt@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    11 months 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.

    • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      11 months ago

      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.

        • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          11 months ago

          Whoever wants to can profile as much as they like. My VPN’s always on and I rent the VPS using Monero.

          • thepierrezou@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            11 months ago

            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.