mesa@piefed.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoBe Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Bravexn--gckvb8fzb.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1216arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkBe Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Bravexn--gckvb8fzb.commesa@piefed.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!
minus-squarepineapple@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days 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-up3·2 days agoUsing a public instance is more private than using a private selfhosted instance.
minus-squareTractorDuffy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 hours ago…a public Lemmy instance? How is that related to the the search engine?
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.
…a public Lemmy instance? How is that related to the the search engine?