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If you host your own instance: > SearXNG protects the privacy of its users in multiple ways regardless of the type of the instance (private, public). Removal o
by sneela 3y ago
If you host your own instance:
> SearXNG protects the privacy of its users in multiple ways regardless of the type of the instance (private, public). Removal of private data from search requests comes in three forms:
> 1. removal of private data from requests going to search services
> 2. not forwarding anything from a third party services through search services (e.g. advertisement)
> 3. removal of private data from requests going to the result pages
From: https://docs.searxng.org/own-instance.html#how-does-searxng-protect-privacy https://docs.searxng.org/own-instance.html#how-does-searxng-...
The docs mention a caveat below at "What are the consequences of using public instances?":
> If someone uses a public instance, they have to trust the administrator of that instance. This means that the user of the public instance does not know whether their requests are logged, aggregated and sent or sold to a third party.
- gtirloni 3y agoAll of that is fine but by simply having your IP, Google can continue to profile you in countless ways with data they collect in other ways and it wouldn't be expensive for them at all.
- panki27 3y agoSearX acts as a proxy, you are not submitting your IP to Google.
- nickburns 3y agoi think since 'IP address' has become something of a baseline non-technical understanding of one of the critical components of networking, it becomes increasingly difficult for non-netpeeps to fully grasp the many uses and non-uses of addressing. a proxy (or proxies) and how they can shield but one or many of ' your' IP addresses throughout an egress packet's many hops (and from who or what destination it or those addresses can be shielded) is a pretty advanced concept when you think about it. not to mention that, at this point, bare source IP address is a pretty dilute tracker compared to other current methods of identity profiling or traffic fingerprinting. nice succint correction on your part regardless.
- gtirloni 3y agoWe're talking about self hosting, right? The proxy is using the same IP.
- nickburns 3y agoif self-hosting, that may very well be correct. a few examples of a self-hosted design that would not, include policy-based routing over a VPN with one or multiple tunneled hops, or through another external proxy. (and then there's also that 'onion' routing 'protocol' there—but i'm not clear if/how that integrates with clearnet destinations like publicly-accessible search engines if at all.)