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I host my own SearXNG instance, which miiiight be a bit of a bad idea because the anonymity of the crowd disappears but hosting your own services is way too cool to ignore. It’s at search.gregtech.eu in case anyone wants to use it.

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So then you can track my searches?

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I guess I could technically do that, but I really don’t give a f what people search for on my searxng instance. Plus, Google and the likes have an incentive to use your searches for advertising and building a profile on you.

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3 points

If people search for illegal content does that get you in trouble?

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2 points

How did you change the logo? I tried to do that on my instance and failed miserably. Running it through docker.

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You gotta mount the image to the place where searxng accesses it, like this in docker compose:

volumes:
      - ./searxng:/etc/searxng:rw
      - type: bind
        source: ./images/searxng.png
        target: /usr/local/searxng/searx/static/themes/simple/img/searxng.png

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What I don’t like about SearXNG (aside of no favicons/icons I think) is that it doesn’t show the content of what I am looking for in the browser desktop tabs, if I search for “Linux” in the tab it is only shown “SearXNG” instead of what I am searching for… That definitely kills my browsing habits… I hope I am being clear (can’t post a screenshot right now), also unsure if it was the same with mobile browsers.

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I can set up a favicon resolver on my instance. I’ll do it today.

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3 points

Thank you, I didn’t even know it was possible.

I am gonna try it later, happy spying /j

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2 points

It supports favicons now, it has to be enabled by the instance.

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Thanks for the heads up, always a good thing being proved wrong when asking for features :p

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You can control that with a setting. In Settings - Privacy, turn on “Query in the page’s title.”

My instance has a magnifying glass as the favicon.

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Thank you, totally missed this then 😄

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That is configurable. Settings > Privacy > Query in the page’s title

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3 points

Oh, so it was a privacy feature then? Neat!

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Hahha GregSearX I love it!

I’ve used searX in the past and found it was decent but personally I am going to stick with duckduckgo because it just works better for my needs (especially since I’m on mobile).

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26 points

Pretty impressed, very accurate information

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It pulls from Wikidata

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10 points

Accurate indeed. Pee is stored in the balls, cum is stored in the prostate

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3 points

You know your content is certainly used to train LLMs ?

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3 points

This is nothing like GregTech! Where’s the tedious microcrafting to enjoy before every search?

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I asked them about that once and they created the instance without knowing about the modpack. xd

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