mesa@piefed.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoBe Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Bravexn--gckvb8fzb.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1176arrow-down1external-linkBe Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Bravexn--gckvb8fzb.commesa@piefed.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!
minus-squarepineapple@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·20 hours agoThe search engines that searxng interact with still track you. For this reason I will always use a public instance to mix up the tracking with everyone else using it.
minus-squarepineapple@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours agoUsing a public instance is more private than using a private selfhosted instance.
The search engines that searxng interact with still track you. For this reason I will always use a public instance to mix up the tracking with everyone else using it.
Explain?
Using a public instance is more private than using a private selfhosted instance.