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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you do that, make it public, or else you can get profiled again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More than happy for google to tie my searches to the VPS' IP.

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