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Re:Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser by piaste on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @07:36AM (#36402587)
I just checked, and there's an optional country selection box you can use.

But for local results, I'd just prepend $cityname to your search query. Faster, unless you live in Llanduwhatsthattowninwales.

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Re:Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser by samizdis on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @07:51AM (#36402731)
Ah, that would probably be Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

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Re:Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser by zorrolovsky on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:23PM (#36408304)
Humorous question: Could moving there be a privacy advantage? I can imagine insanely long locations break a good bunch of databases and CRMs, specially legacy ones... I would give my location to every spammer and scammer and refuse to spell it. "Oh yeah... I'm super interested in your product. But you gotta ship it to Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu. Is that ok?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangi%C2%ADhangako...

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Re:Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser by stavros on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:53PM (#36411859)
This is the xkcd with the 1III1II1 plates, it's "oh, that Welsh town with the long name".
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