Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results
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This is also what Startpage does.
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Finding a searxng instance and entering a random search term, the first 10 pages of results all came from google.
Checking the preferences, there were 4 search, and 6 of the other toggles enabled.
Even enabling all engines and rerunning the search, the first 13 results were listed as google
Is it meaningfully different from this offering if all the results it picks seemingly come from Google?
If I disable all but mojeek and qwant, all the results came from mojeek
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I've never thought about it until now, so thanks for that...
I've said it in my head as "Seer" and then the letters X N G. I didn't even CONSIDER part of it is supposed to sound like "search"...
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I've been paying for Mullvad for a while and didn't realize this was even a thing until this announcement.
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And Searx
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It's also underselling what they are providing.
You get to skip all the AI garbage, all the sponsored links, and the "what other people are asking" sections and just go straight to the search results.
Privacy is the primary selling point, but the clean "old school" google interface is what I'm really excited about. I've set my default search in the browser to Leta for now.
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While this is nice, I would really like to see more fully independent options that are not just a proxy for Google/Bing. I realize that is a lot easier said than done, but this kind of solution is not providing a real alternative in anything but name only. Google/Microsoft fully control the APIs being used. so things this only exists so long as those they are trying to provide an alternative for allow them to exist. Which will not scale if they are anything but a blip on the radar.
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They were bought by a shady company a while back.
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They were bought by a shady company a while back.
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@[email protected]So....I guess it kinda seems like a .gif vs .gif sorta situation, we'll never come to a consensus, there will forever be disparate camps chuckling under their breath at all the "idiots" that can't even pronounce SearXNG right...the fools.....
Well, guess I'll sleep on it and join a camp some day.... le sigh
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Searching. XNG makes the "Ching" sound in some languages.
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If there's no method of exploitation then you haven't found a vulnerability. You're just describing how the system works.
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Oh snap. I had no idea!
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System1 specifically, which is also mentioned in the article you linked.
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Funny you say that, because my only complaint about this search engine is that it's missing the AI "garbage". I suppose I could just go directly to Gemini but it was convenient getting a quick answer without having to use two separate websites.
