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submitted 7 months ago by Fmstrat@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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Pronounced "searching".

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[–] xcel@piefed.social 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

until it leaks your ip to microsoft and bing

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world [S] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I run my own with a VPN tunnel, or you can use a public instance to aggregate with others.

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[–] yamper@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

every once in a while i get captcha blocked by the search providers. its a little annoying but i can restart the tunnel to get my searches back

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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 7 months ago

Yea, I've scripted restarts for that reason. There is apparently a setting in SearXNG that can help woth that, but I've never figured it out.

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