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Why DuckDuckGo Is Attacking Google Over Its Privacy Promises (www.makeuseof.com)

submitted 2 years ago by AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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DDG isn't NEARLY as private as it should be, mind you. But IMO their points here are still valid.

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

But the default behaviour of self hosted searx is to expose the server's IP to the actual search engines, do you use VPN or something at the server side?