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There's no such thing as "couldn't log" when you're talking about an open source project. The source code can always be modified. Even if something is open-source, you're always trusting the one hosting it with your data.
You can see at searx.space if an instance changed the code he uses.
It's cool that they have that info (hadn't noticed it before), though it only looks at the front end code, there is no way to check for any malicious code on the back end. At the very least, logging the IP addresses that use the search engine is trivial without any changes to the front end. Actually correlating search queries to IPs would probably be harder since the query isn't in the URLs, but maybe not that much harder, I'm not sure.
Oh right. Well yeah that's a shame. I bet there's a way to make the frontend select an instance randomaly from a list and send the query to it.