lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agoWhy I Lost Faith in Kagid-shoot.netexternal-linkmessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squarealansuspect@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoI’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?
minus-squareLWD@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoIt’s basically a proxy for Google and other engines, think of it as a VPN for your searches.
minus-squarealansuspect@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoI see that makes sense. So what does making it public/blending traffic do?
minus-squareKuvwert@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoMakes it harder to fingerprint/differentiate traffic
minus-squareKuvwert@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoIt just culminates results from a bunch of other engines
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?
It’s basically a proxy for Google and other engines, think of it as a VPN for your searches.
I see that makes sense. So what does making it public/blending traffic do?
Makes it harder to fingerprint/differentiate traffic
It just culminates results from a bunch of other engines