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I learned about startpage recently. (www.startpage.com)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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