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I'm not sure there is a way to create a search engine that can verifiably respect your privacy unless you were to self-host the entire thing. This one's hosted
by shirakawasuna 6y ago
I'm not sure there is a way to create a search engine that can verifiably respect your privacy unless you were to self-host the entire thing.
This one's hosted in France. France is part of Nine Eyes, among other things.
- rasengan 6y agoPrivate.sh encrypts queries on the client side and routes requests thru proxies to maximize privacy.
- blindm 6y agoTry a live link instead, it helps users out who have to copy and paste the URL: https://private.sh/ https://private.sh/
- gnufx 6y agoAlso https://swisscows.com/ https://swisscows.com/
- shirakawasuna 6y agoLooks like an interesting project! It would still need serious audits since it's all browser-based (arbitrary JS could be added at any time and snoop on the results page) and there's a black box element at the point of retrieving results: we're hoping that the search provider is only sending encrypted results back, but I don't see how we have a guarantee that this is the case and that the query and results aren't being logged in various places and cross-referenceable. Basically, we receive an encrypted result, but where is the non-black-box, non-trust-based guarantee that this is the only result seen?
- rasengan 6y agoYou can review the JS and it’s results in the console.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoIt's not the job of each individual application to do everything. If you want privacy of your web activities, use Tor, which will work for every website. That's the best you can, even though it is not perfect.