I’ve been trying to find a good privacy respecting browser, but I can’t really decide on what to use. I don’t like the search results with Brave Search. DuckDuckGo shares my information with Microsoft and SearchXNG shows me NSFW images even with strict search on. I really like Presearch, but I’m not really sure what they’re about.

EDIT: After tinkering with the settings of my SearXNG instance, it seems to have reduced the amount of NSFW images. I think I will stick with SearXNG for now.

  • asudox
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    2 months ago

    The best is to self host your own SearXNG metasearch engine.

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        2 months ago

        I host my searxng instance on a hetzner vps so my ip is not leaked anywhere.

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            2 months ago

            The search requests are being made on my behalf on the host (in my case, the hetzner VPS).

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              2 months ago

              But they are always coming from the same IP, so you are still identifiable. If you want increased anonymity you need more people to use your instance to mix the search topics.

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                2 months ago

                I don’t really care about anonymity much. Privacy != Anonymity.

                It seems like some people use my searxng instance sometimes. It’s not locked after all.

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        2 months ago

        You can host if on a vps, use it behind a vpn, or make a whole group of people using it so you don’t know from who these requests were