Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine
by greglindahl on Monday July 25, 2016 @01:55PM
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It doesn't. The idea is that you'll run your own personal instance, and traffic will be low enough to not set off anyone's defenses. You'll see this discussed if you look at the issues, and in the code you can see that it supports using proxies and multiple IPs on hosts which have multiple IPs.
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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine
by visarga on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:10PM
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If you run your own, then it's not private any more. Your server IP will identify your searches, and only your searches.
Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine
by mintplant on Monday July 25, 2016 @04:07PM
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Perhaps one could tunnel it through Tor, rotating identities regularly. There is the issue of dealing with Google's aggressive reCAPTCHA challenges to connections made through Tor, however.
Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine
by ScroogeMcDoug on Monday July 25, 2016 @10:53PM
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Historically, I've found Google search borderline impossible to use via Tor because it'd usually give me an error page after solving the captcha. Occasionally you'll find a window where they're not nulling Tor IPs, but it's rarely worth the time.