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by elashri 686 days ago
To deploy it I think you mean on a vps. Now all your searches by Searx will be routed to other engines with the IP of your vps. So unless you deploy it with something like gluten to provide VPN access for searx. You will let those engines build profile about you. If you use the public instances so that more people are using it you don't know if they are running the unmodified source code.

Id you go with the route of VPN with sear then you probably use VPN with search engines like DDG directly. And don't save cookies on the browser.

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That comment is simply ludicrous.

You display enough technical pro-efficiency on the topic but then you try to compare as equivalent the usage of SearX or DDG, ignoring that only one of them has the source code available for review. If you are affiliated to DDG, please disclose openly.

If you honestly are _THAT_ worried about IP tracking on the server level, then you would run SearX inside your local machine with Tor or any VPN of your choice. Simple.

Otherwise you'd just pick an online instance from https://searx.space/

But I wonder if we are having a non-affiliated conversation.

>pro-efficiency

proficiency?