lemmyreader to [email protected]English • 7 months agoWhy I Lost Faith in Kagid-shoot.netmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down117file-textcross-posted to: technology
arrow-up1132arrow-down1external-linkWhy I Lost Faith in Kagid-shoot.netlemmyreader to [email protected]English • 7 months agomessage-square68fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•7 months agoNext step is to make it public to help other people and blend your data/traffic
minus-squarecapitallink6•7 months agoOpen a search app to the public? So their searches come from my IP address? No fucking way, unless I’m missing something.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•7 months agoMy host-fu is weak and the uptime is terrivle right now… Trying to figure out why the container just crashed randomly
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•7 months agoI’m still trying to understand searxng, does it start with nothing and build up its index each time you search? Will your results be rubbish for a while?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•7 months agoIt just culminates results from a bunch of other engines
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•7 months agoIt’s basically a proxy for Google and other engines, think of it as a VPN for your searches.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•7 months agoI see that makes sense. So what does making it public/blending traffic do?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•7 months agoMakes it harder to fingerprint/differentiate traffic
I spun up a docker container for searxng
Next step is to make it public to help other people and blend your data/traffic
Open a search app to the public? So their searches come from my IP address? No fucking way, unless I’m missing something.
My host-fu is weak and the uptime is terrivle right now… Trying to figure out why the container just crashed randomly
I’m still trying to understand searxng, does it start with nothing and build up its index each time you search? Will your results be rubbish for a while?
It just culminates results from a bunch of other engines
It’s basically a proxy for Google and other engines, think of it as a VPN for your searches.
I see that makes sense. So what does making it public/blending traffic do?
Makes it harder to fingerprint/differentiate traffic
👍