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@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com As I understand it there's one issue with hosting a searx instance yourself and that is that if you do that your search results will be less anonymous than using a public instance.

Searx is a meta search engine so it gets results from many other search engines and combines them. If you're the sole user of a searx instance all the traffic from that instance are your personal searx queries, they do not get thrown into the same pile with thousands of other users, making them anonymous, like they do on the public instances

So if you host a searx instance, it's in your best interest to share it with other people.