Mojeek

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One of the few engines I enable on my self-hosted searXNG instance since they don’t track IP. Very simple-to-understand privacy policy as well. Here’s a snippet:

Tracking and Logging Policy

Mojeek doesn’t implement any kind of specific user tracking, whether that be at the time of visit or subsequently via standard logs, which Mojeek does keep indefinitely. These logs contain the time of visit, page requested, possibly referral data, and located in a separate log browser information. IP addresses are not recorded, instead the IP address is replaced with a simple two letter code indicating the visitors country of origin. By doing this, Mojeek removes any possibility of tracking or identifying any particular user. We use a URL parameter to monitor if a campaign landing page visit results in a Mojeek search request. This parameter is visible in the URL and is not used after the first search.

Data Usage

The remaining log data (country, time/date, page requested, referral data, and in a separate log browser data), which although now contains no identifiable data, would still in no situation whatsoever be sold or distributed to any third party vendors. This data is kept private for the sole purpose of storing historical traffic volumes and country demographics of our visitors. We may also use aggregate, non-personal search data to improve our results.

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IP addresses are not recorded, instead the IP address is replaced with a simple two letter code indicating the visitors country of origin.

they don’t actually say how, eg. if they’re using a third party to process this, they could log it, which could be timestampped and later correlated.

for example MetaGer on the other hand explicitly states they process it locally:

To do so your IP address is processed locally.

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We do not outsource any development of Mojeek to third parties; all development is kept in-house. We pride ourselves on limiting the number of third party products and services that Mojeek consumes.

I don’t believe Mojeek uses any third-parties and I think they said once it wasn’t possible for them to log IP addresses due to how their system was built to anonymize users, but that isn’t entirely true since IP addresses can always be logged.

They used to partner with Amazon until 2019 after user backlash.

MetaGer is paid only now.

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I wasn’t recommending MetaGer, I was simply pointing out that some providers are more explicit with how they perform GeoIP lookups.
iirc, MetaGer was insanely sending off partial IP addresses to advertisers years ago.

To receive this advertising, we give the first two blocks of the IP in connection with some non-identifying parts of the so-called user agent to our advertising partners

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I would vote in favour of adding this.

It’s UK based so is quite good and also provides an alternative to the current US options.