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I don’t understand either. It says private.sh can’t see your query but the “search provider” can, so that’s the other end. What the heck is a search provider t
by jdxcode 6y ago
I don’t understand either. It says private.sh can’t see your query but the “search provider” can, so that’s the other end.
What the heck is a search provider though?
EDIT: looks like it’s “gigablast”. I don’t understand why I just wouldn’t use that search engine directly?
- prophesi 6y agoIt encrypts the query with the public key of the search provider (Gigablast) then sends it over to https://search.private.sh/v2/search https://search.private.sh/v2/search which then supposedly goes through a few proxies before finally hitting Gigablast, wherein the search query is decrypted by Gigablast's private key. The point is that Gigablast doesn't know details about the user (though I'm not sure why private.sh's servers can't just forward the IP), and private.sh doesn't know what search query was sent (which, if you're using the extension and disable auto-updates, you can verify that this is actually the case. The code is short and readable.)
- Nightshaxx 6y agoThe whole idea of the product is it strips your IP address.