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LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

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what do you use as a search engine? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by fishonthenet@lemmy.ml to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml

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I'm currently working on re-evaluating our search engine selection (reading privacy policies and all that good stuff), to see what to keep, remove, maybe add. I figured I might use some input from lemmy.

what do you use out of the ones we include? is anyone actually using search engines like qwant and metager?
do you add any search engine to librewolf?

if you're curious bout my notes on this -> https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/issues/111

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[–] BXM1X9UyZ588Yb7Ebgv@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe(to add): https://searx.neocities.org

Policies:

Redirects users directly to a random selection of any known running server after entering query.

Requires Javascript.

Excludes servers with user tracking and analytics or are proxied through Cloudflare.

I found this random Searx/SearXNG search engine redirector at https://searx.space under the About tab.

To use it, I save the search redirector as a bookmark at https://searx.neocities.org/#q=%s&category_general=on

I also turn on javascript on at searx.neocities.org because otherwise I have to type in my search query manually into a specific search instance.

However if your threat model requires it, you can also go to the no-javascript version of searx.neocities.org. You will not be automatically redirected to a random Searx instance when using no-JS version.

I type in a keyword in the url bar and then the service redirects me to a random Searx/SearXNG instance. For load balancing purposes, it seems great since no single server will be stressed significantly. The searches are spread across multiple instances.

Sometimes the redirected Searx/SearXNG instances output bad results(e.g. errors). In that case, just use the Searx redirector again to have new random Searx/SearXNG instance.