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Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024
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Reading through the current Qwant privacy policy certainly doesn't alleviate any privacy concerns either....
Mozilla keeps building/buying, then abandoning things. I'm not sure if they're cut out for that project, and in my experience a SearX instance's effectiveness is mostly based on whether there are enough users for the data to be obfuscated, but so few that it doesn't get rate limited...
Certainly some things are rate limited, Brave and Startpage are particularly bad for this. I omit them from my endjinns in Searx settings.
If you can use Google through SearX, isn't Startpage redundant? IIRC they don't ever claim to do anything but proxy Google results.
Yes, except in the case where Google is rate limited. There is/was a Searx instance that regularly got blocked by Google, I do not remember which one though.
After they were purchased by an advertising company? Yes.