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searx.prvcy.eu dead? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by TCB13@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hello,

searx.prvcy.eu has been dead for me for a couple of weeks now, anyone else?

I'm getting 502 Bad Gateway.

Thanks.

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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You know that hosting your own instance means unless you’ve people using it you’ll lose anonymity. The big advantage of those public instances is that many people use them mixing your searches with others.

That argument has been seen posted before, but is it really true ? Will Google, Bing, or any of the other search engines that you configure in your SearXNG instance really create a profile based on your searches and then know (SearXNG is supposed to proxy only and not show your real IP) it is you ?

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes its true, it's obvious, all your queries will come from the SearXNG server IP and they'll eventually match to the the information / account / other addresses they already have on you.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes its true, it’s obvious, all your queries will come from the SearXNG server IP and they’ll eventually match to the the information / account / other addresses they already have on you.

I assume that SearXNG as a proxy will not show your real IP address, nor with it show which monitor resolution and which web browser you use, to the search engines that the instance will query.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You buy a VPS that has a static IP to run your private instance. Then search engines will log the VPS IP for every single search query, with a bit of time/data they'll be able to tie that IP address to your profile. All it takes is for you to open a few websites that use google analytics with your adblocker disabled for some reason and... game over.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see your point. One solution : run Pi-hole in your local network to block analytics.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I bet google has 200 more ways to cross records and detect whenever you're proxying your queries.