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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I learned about startpage recently. (www.startpage.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Brad@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] Anamana@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you have to host it yourself?

[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Nor should you, if you'd only use it yourself, since pooling is integral if you don't want to be profiled.

There are public instances at Searx.space.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago (2 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.

[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] thepierrezou@kbin.social 1 points 9 months 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.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That is the point, If you want to go really private, there is no other to self host on a own server. If not, it's better to use any of the other "normal" search engine with a good reputation. the privacy it has you can check with the services above mencioned., and to repeat until boredom: important to read TOS and PP to avoid surprises. These are legally binding documents, that is, if they do strange things with your data, without specifying it in this texts, a ton of bricks can fall on them with million-dollar complaints.