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SearX acts as a proxy, you are not submitting your IP to Google.

• nickburns 3y ago
  i 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 ago
  We're talking about self hosting, right? The proxy is using the same IP.
  • nickburns 3y ago
    if 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.)