• Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Certainly some things are rate limited, Brave and Startpage are particularly bad for this. I omit them from my endjinns in Searx settings.

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      7 months ago

      If you can use Google through SearX, isn’t Startpage redundant? IIRC they don’t ever claim to do anything but proxy Google results.

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        7 months ago

        isn’t Startpage redundant?

        After they were purchased by an advertising company? Yes.

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        7 months ago

        Yes, except in the case where Google is rate limited. There is/was a Searx instance that regularly got blocked by Google, I do not remember which one though.