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Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Certainly some things are rate limited, Brave and Startpage are particularly bad for this. I omit them from my endjinns in Searx settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you can use Google through SearX, isn't Startpage redundant? IIRC they don't ever claim to do anything but proxy Google results.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

isn’t Startpage redundant?

After they were purchased by an advertising company? Yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.