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[–] Gooey0210 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Next step is to make it public to help other people and blend your data/traffic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Open a search app to the public? So their searches come from my IP address? No fucking way, unless I'm missing something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm still trying to understand searxng, does it start with nothing and build up its index each time you search? Will your results be rubbish for a while?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It just culminates results from a bunch of other engines

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's basically a proxy for Google and other engines, think of it as a VPN for your searches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I see that makes sense. So what does making it public/blending traffic do?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Makes it harder to fingerprint/differentiate traffic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

My host-fu is weak and the uptime is terrivle right now... Trying to figure out why the container just crashed randomly