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@squid True...Harder now to add a custom search engine unless you visit it and then click the url on top to get a dropdown to add it...but manually adding it is hard.
Speaking of search engines I highly recommend searx.neocities.org/ - it randomly uses the best Searx instances. No ads, no tracking...
Here's another one worth a try. https://4get.ca
@sic_semper_tyrannis Oh nice! I'll have a deeper look. Thx
How about startpage?
@TheDarkBanana87 As far as I know they have been bought by an ad-company en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpag… - but SearX supports Startpage too. Just without the BS. I cannot trust any company honestly. They are incentivized to kinda lie and exaggerate. And search engines ran by companies....are terrible. If their business model is to sell you ads, they will track you one way or another, and if not today, they will do it next year.
Thanks for the heads up. I mainly use Startpage. Maybe its time to try SearX
I've heard of searx never used it though
@squid I use it daily. We ran an instance too. It is simply great. As good as Google, DDG, and the like are, since it is using them.
So its an agitator, will it directly communicate with googelz bing ddg? Or does it use an IP hiding techniques?
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- read more here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx and see the source code here github.com/searxng/searxng
I'd love to try using it more. How do you add it to Firefox?
@smallaubergine @squid
Thank you! I guess I should have mentioned I'm on mobile. But it was pretty easy to add manually once I read the directions