Librex is a FOSS meta search engine that is privacy respecting and javascript free

Open Source@lemmy.ml – 122 points – 1 years ago

GitHub - hnhx/librex: Framework and javascript free privacy respecting meta search engine

seems like a very good alternative to searx and i think more people need to know about it

I'm currently running it as a private instance, it is quite stable and fast, faster than my own private instance of Whoogle, although you don't get all the nifty features like instant results and related searches, etc.

Had not heard of it, thanks for sharing

This is the first time I heard about self hosted search engines. What is the benefit of using this over something like duck duck go?

You control your data.

AFAIK, it is an aggregator. Meaning: you can pick and choose between search engines (google, bing, ...).

If you make your instance public, you make it harder to get profiled, since your search behavior can't be analyzed as easily.

Last but not least: You don't have to trust any search engine company.

I've run Searxng for a while is there any reason to switch?

Thanks for sharing

I have been using random searXNG. I might as well give it a try.

EDIT: This can really work well with something like privoxy!

Yeah i was between this and whoogle. Went with whoogle as its more actively maintained

Wait, why do we care that searx has 3rd party libraries? Is it leaking data about it's users to them?