mesa@piefed.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoBe Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Bravexn--gckvb8fzb.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1147arrow-down1external-linkBe Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Bravexn--gckvb8fzb.commesa@piefed.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!
minus-squareyodeljunkmanenvy@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 days agoThere is also a list of publicly operated SearXNG instances at https://searx.space/. We host the one at https://search.freestater.org/, and there are plenty of other good ones.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoWho says they are securely operated and don’t store any data??
minus-squarejackr@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agowho says that about any search engine? can you trust them? searXNG is usually run by random people who are less likely to use your data than a larger search company
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoIf you’re using a shared IP, it doesn’t matter. You are using a VPN or Tor, right?!?
There is also a list of publicly operated SearXNG instances at https://searx.space/. We host the one at https://search.freestater.org/, and there are plenty of other good ones.

Who says they are securely operated and don’t store any data??
who says that about any search engine? can you trust them? searXNG is usually run by random people who are less likely to use your data than a larger search company
If you’re using a shared IP, it doesn’t matter.
You are using a VPN or Tor, right?!?