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How exactly does your search engine where the engine can't see the search term work?
by iudqnolq 3y ago
How exactly does your search engine where the engine can't see the search term work?
- skinkestek 3y agoYou can POST it, and some privacy oriented web tools do that instead of GET, but the reason, as explained elsewhere, is not to hide it from NSA (GET parameters and POST are equally easy/hard to intercept), but to protect against other persons who has access to ones unencrypted computer (spouse, kids, colleagues).
- iudqnolq 3y agoThat'd protect against other people who have access to the computer but not the technical skill to install any kind of logger. Couldn't you also just open an incognito window?
- skinkestek 3y agoI'm not suggesting it is a good idea, or necessary for Kagi or anyone else to do it. I'm just explaining the reason why some does it and saying it doesn't help against intermediaries who can eavesdrop. Im fact I think I was tempted to write my exact thoughts about it yesterday but dropped it.