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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I used to, until they started changing links for actual results to have trackers built in. I couldn’t click on specific websites i was searching for without my adblock putting a stop to it. Asked them about it in their discord and they basically told me to turn off adblock. Dropped them like a sack of potatoes and spun up a SearXNG instance. Before that I thought about spinning up a presearch node. Glad I switched to SearXNG. It basically accomplished what I wanted from Presearch without the ads and crypto shitcoin.

    If I had to switch to a new engine not run by me, I’d consider Qwant or maybe Kagi if paying for it is worth it. I’m old enough to be used to having stuff for free on the internet, doing it yourself to keep from having to pay for a service is a perfectly fine option for me.

    My search engine lineage: Alta Vista

    Yahoo

    Dogpile

    Metacrawler

    Google

    Cuil

    Google

    DDG

    Google

    Presearch

    My own SearXNG instance