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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious: Isn't Searx(ng) a bit less useful if you're the only person using it? I thought that pooling of searches make it harder to run targetting algorithms.

[โ€“] QuazarOmega 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly, one can self host if they want, but if their aim is to limit user profiling, they should absolutely make their instance public so they can get mixed traffic through it