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Welcome to the official community for LibreWolf.

LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

To learn more or to download the browser visit the website: https://librewolf.net/

If you want to contribute head over to our Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/librewolf

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what do you use as a search engine? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm currently working on re-evaluating our search engine selection (reading privacy policies and all that good stuff), to see what to keep, remove, maybe add. I figured I might use some input from lemmy.

  • what do you use out of the ones we include? is anyone actually using search engines like qwant and metager?
  • do you add any search engine to librewolf?

if you're curious bout my notes on this -> https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/issues/111

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe(to add): https://searx.neocities.org

Policies:

  • Redirects users directly to a random selection of any known running server after entering query.
  • Requires Javascript.
  • Excludes servers with user tracking and analytics or are proxied through Cloudflare.

I found this random Searx/SearXNG search engine redirector at https://searx.space under the About tab.

To use it, I save the search redirector as a bookmark at https://searx.neocities.org/#q=%s&category_general=on

I also turn on javascript on at searx.neocities.org because otherwise I have to type in my search query manually into a specific search instance.

However if your threat model requires it, you can also go to the no-javascript version of searx.neocities.org. You will not be automatically redirected to a random Searx instance when using no-JS version.

I type in a keyword in the url bar and then the service redirects me to a random Searx/SearXNG instance. For load balancing purposes, it seems great since no single server will be stressed significantly. The searches are spread across multiple instances.

Sometimes the redirected Searx/SearXNG instances output bad results(e.g. errors). In that case, just use the Searx redirector again to have new random Searx/SearXNG instance.