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I had a searx instance running for a long time and it's great when it works but the plugins for site specific searches break all the time and if you have more t
by YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y ago
I had a searx instance running for a long time and it's great when it works but the plugins for site specific searches break all the time and if you have more than 3-4 users with a high search frequency google blacklists your IP by throttling.
- kaba0 5y agoMay I ask about what’s your idea of preserving privacy with self-hosting a website that searches for specific terms from a presumably fixed IP, where by 1/3-1/4 chance it can be attributed to you?
- YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y agoThe instance ran on a mobile connection not associated with any private information. EDIT: It was located in a german street light 20km away from any of the users. Just to get the geolocation question out of the way. It was more of an experiment than anything else there will be a talk about it and other FreiFunk (Open Mesh Network in Germany) related stuff at the next virtual CCC congress.
- dalf 5y agoDid you renew the mobile IP from time to time? Note: since the version 1.0, searx stops sending request for 1 day when a CAPTCHA is detected which might help a little. (I'm really interested by the results of your experiment)
- YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y agoWe renewed every 12 hours in the end we came to the conclusion that google might discriminate traffic from eastern european states. The sim cards were mostly from poland, belarus and the ukraine. When we tested it against german, french and italian cards captchas were way more frequent on the eastern cards and showed way earlier. I will ping you as soon as the talk is online.
- dalf 5y agoThank you! To ping, see my profile or @dalf at GitHub