[dalf]

Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers.

The intent of SearXNG is to be stateless (with no sessions on the server) and to work without JavaScript.

However, this approach limits certain features because of the restricted size of cookies (and other forms of browser storage require JavaScript).

[arcastroe]

Thank you, that makes a lot of sense. Stateless is very good for privacy and I agree with that approach for a multi-user instance, (which I suppose is the most common use-case).

I'm picturing more of an instance-wide configuration of domain blocks for a private, single-user, self-hosted instance. But I understand this may not be the intended use of the project.

[dalf]

Global configuration for an instance:

https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/f1a148f53e9fbd10e95b... https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/970

[arcastroe]

That's great! Thank you for the links.