[image] 4get 4get is a proxy search engine that doesn't suck A metasearch engine that really respects your privacy. https://4get.ca

[Screenshot 2023-12-12 at 17.32.45] I’m afraid I lost interest right about there.

Not a big deal imo, because there are plenty of other instances with bot protection disabled: Instance browser 4get: Instances

Depends on what instance you are using, I switched and never had this problem again. Even with a VPN.

Also 4get.ch is almost definitely under the Swiss legislation, the server is in France though, but probably because I assume OVH doesn’t have any Swiss servers. Probably near the French-speaking side of Switzerland.

For a meta-search engine, 4get definitely gets the job done. I’m going to ignore my bias against how the project is clearly in favor of 4chan. Anyways, I would say 4get is a lot faster than searxng, as its a very slim project. Searxng has some old bones that it needs to maintain, and 4get is design…

[image] overdrawn98901: I’m going to ignore my bias against how the project is clearly in favor of 4chan. This seems pretty important given that 4chan is one of the most vitriolic and hateful websites on the internet. If 4get is pushing 4chan results to the top or raising their ranking in se…

I mean yes, but I don’t think the core 4get product has interest in doing that. Also note that searxng allows maintainers to custom rank their own engines based on configurations - this is really an instance specific thing even if it were the case. Personally I just don’t like the branding, and wo…

[image] overdrawn98901: For our readers that have a different primary language than English, searxng is the better user experience in that regard It would be nice if they had UI translation but there’s not much to translate honestly. As a user with a native language other than English, I only…

I haven’t seen anyone saying 4get pushing 4chan results until this thread. Anyone has more concrete articles / reports / blogs about this?

It’s not even listed in one of their supported sites, that was just speculation and fear mongering. No need to entertain it.

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I’m afraid I lost interest right about there.

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