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Pronounced "searching".

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[-] xcel@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

until it leaks your ip to microsoft and bing

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I run my own with a VPN tunnel, or you can use a public instance to aggregate with others.

[-] yamper@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

every once in a while i get captcha blocked by the search providers. its a little annoying but i can restart the tunnel to get my searches back

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yea, I've scripted restarts for that reason. There is apparently a setting in SearXNG that can help woth that, but I've never figured it out.

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