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  • Do you understand how this is not helpful in any way now?

    No, because you’re just talking about how much RAM SearXNG consumes. In your original post you were complaining about a memory leak. I monitor the ressources of my NAS. Even after a restart of my NAS where every container was freshly started the RAM consumption wasn’t higher than a month later after the restart (without restarting any of the docker containers). And that is why I can with full conviction tell that my SearXNG instance didn’t leak memory.

    This discussion is going nowhere from here so I’m gonna stop responding. I said everything to make my point as clear as possible. Have a nice day.



  • Yes, because as I said it’s not a memory leak. I would have noticed a memory leak because I keep an eye on the ressources of my NAS (on which my SearXNG instance was hosted) and I didn’t notice an usual growing consumption of my RAM. I just didn’t check the consumption of RAM on each individual container that was running. I would have done that if I would have noticed an unusual consumption of RAM.

    Look, I can’t give you more detailled information than this because it’s all from my memories. All I wanted to do was to help as good as I can by answering from my experiences. If that doesn’t help or is inappropriate to you I’m sorry. I didn’t want to offend you or anything like that.




  • Vexz@feddit.detoPrivacy@lemmy.mlPrivate search engines.
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    the issue with SearX is the search results can be irrelevent or something random.

    Haha, oh, right! I just remembered that often times when I searched something completely harmless some weird porn sites would appear in the results which had clearly absolutely nothing to do with the things I’ve been searching for. It’s one of the reasons why I stopped using SearX(NG).




  • I thought of a similar thread but I think the results would be pretty much the same. It’s great to have some mutual inspiration here.

    Anyway, there’s tons of stuff I can list here. I’m gonna list some stuff but will probably forget 70% of the other stuff because it’s become so common in my daily life.

    • Own NAS as private cloud
    • Self-host on my NAS to not use internet services that spy on me (like Bitwarden, Joplin server, cryptgeon, Syncthing, Nextcloud)
    • OPNsense as my router of choice
    • W10Privacy (because I still can’t switch to Linux because of circumstances)
    • Firefox as my browser of choice with some extra settings to harden it (I tried something like LibreWolf in the past but I can’t use Spotify without DRM)
    • uBlock Origin of course (and some other browser addons like LibRedirect, ClearURLs, Decentraleyes and so on)
    • Privacy respecting mail provider (mailbox.org)
    • Signal (instead of WhatsApp)
    • Thunderbird (instead of something like Outlook)
    • Piped (instead of YouTube)
    • Uninstalled/disabled all apps on my phone that I don’t need (also saves battery)
    • Been using custom ROMs on my phone (but I made some bad experiences with stability so I stick with the stock ROM for now)
    • NextDNS (with encrypted DNS)
    • Whoogle (instead of Google)
    • Lemmy (instead of reddit, haha)
    • Avoid accounts (and even links) to something like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and so on
    • Libreddit, Nitter and all the other privacy friendly frontends for social media
    • Never connected devices to my LAN/Wi-Fi that don’t need an internet connection (like a stove lol) and never installed the apps on my phone to operate them

    Gonna add some more to the list whenever something comes up in my mind. Like I said it’s become so basic in my life that I don’t always think about it anymore when I use it.

    Btw things like 2FA only help with security, not privacy.









  • The problem is that it doesn’t matter which instance I use. I tried multiple instances, even self-hosted one myself. Sooner or later I always had the problem with timeouts (even with my self-hosted local instance) and it’s so damn annoying. Even refreshing the page doesn’t always help. I really don’t feel like hopping from instance to instance just because my preferred instance has timeouts again. Reliability is crucial to me.




  • Some thoughts from a long term SearXNG user: While I really appreciate how privacy respecting SearXNG is I had a lot of trouble with it. Often enough you get 0 results because of timeouts with the search engines it uses and sometimes the order of the presented search results isn’t good. Sometimes the thing I’ve been searching for was the 10th result while in other search engines it was the first result. So the prioritizing of the results is often enough just odd.

    We live in a time where there are so many search engines but all of them have their flaws. It’s really frustrating. :(