the only #privacy-respecting #searchengine in the world (searxes.eu.org) is currently down. Hope this is temporary! It's a sad state of affairs that #Tor users are dependant on this one search engine.
@fireglow thanks but I'm aware of that. searxes.eu.org is the only #searx instance that filters out #CloudFlare websites
How interesting!
@fireglow @newmaker
Indeed the #CloudFlare's #Google #reCAPTCHA is a #DoS attack on #Tor users. It forces some browsers to execute non-free j/s, while other browsers are denied the option to solve the #CAPTCHA.
And for both Tor & non-Tor users, CF sees all traffic, even the SSL encrypted traffic incl. usernames & unhashed passwords, so #CloudFlare abuses everyone's #privacy
@resist1984
What about #duckduckgo?
@Br0m3x #DuckDuckGo has a #privacy abuser for CEO (who previously founded a Names DB, a svc to get naive ppl to leak the contact info of their friends). #DDG also feeds privacy abusers #Verizon, #Yahoo & #microsoft. DDG was also caught violating their own privacy policy.
@resist1984
Ooo good to know:)
@resist1984 @Br0m3x <sigh> any recommendations to replace DDG?
@resist1984 have you tried search.disroot.org or searx.neocities.org ?
@strypey thanks for the suggestion. I like searx.neocities.org because it demos many of the decent searx instances. I didn't like it a few months ago when it was sending ppl to searx instances that run on #CloudFlare (glad they fixed that).
@strypey Searxes is superior b/c not only does it avoid #CloudFlare instances, it also filters CF sites in the results. w.r.t search.disroot.org, I think I've used it in the past and after another look it seems to be a good instance. Does it do anything particularly special? I noticed no CloudFlare results in a search I just did, but perhaps I got lucky.
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