Isn’t hosting your own instance taking away every benefit of searx by revealing your IP? If you had a VPN you’d use it to mask your IP from tracking of search engines anyway, and if you used Tor for it, you’d probably move back soon since it’ll be so much worst with latency, like how many people go back to google because DDG sucks for results.
I suggest just using instances you can find them at
https://searx.space some are more reliable than others but none have been trouble free. There’s a lot of these instances for privacy, chrome has a privacy plugin with a white eye that uses nitter.net for Twitter, teddit for Reddit and other public instances. One instance of Reddit was even made completely in rust. ;)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
To reply to the person under me, you’re always relying on a trust in something unverified and untrustworthy filters like VPNs anyway, you’re either revealing your IP using a wrapper that reveals it instantly, use a site that isn’t a search engine and might be using your data, using a VPN that is based on reputable and assumptions, usually based in another country you won’t visit or know much about aside from random reviewers, or using Tor, losing latency, reasonable speed image search, and still be possibly compromised.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
To reply to the person under me, you’re always relying on a trust in something unverified and untrustworthy filters like VPNs anyway, you’re either revealing your IP using a wrapper that reveals it instantly, use a site that isn’t a search engine and might be using your data, using a VPN that is based on reputable and assumptions, usually based in another country you won’t visit or know much about aside from random reviewers, or using Tor, losing latency, reasonable speed image search, and still be possibly compromised.