StartPage has apparently started to fingerprint users

Lukas · May 23, 2024, 6:04pm

They now also index Bing so it isn’t just Google, right? Also, something like Whoogle would be better.

github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org

Whoogle-Search: New Meta-Search-Engine for Google

opened 05:58AM - 18 Feb 23 UTC

c:software

### Discussed in https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/…177 <div type='discussions-op-text'> <sup>Originally posted by **astier** October 8, 2021</sup> [whoogle-search](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search) is a self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine. Get Google search results, but without any ads, javascript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file. Quick and simple to implement as a primary search engine replacement on both desktop and mobile. - No ads or sponsored content - No javascript - No cookies - No tracking/linking of your personal IP address\* - No AMP links - No URL tracking tags (i.e. utm=%s) - No referrer header - Tor and HTTP/SOCKS proxy support - Autocomplete/search suggestions - POST request search and suggestion queries (when possible) - View images at full res without site redirect (currently mobile only) - Dark mode - Randomly generated User Agent - Easy to install/deploy - DDG-style bang (i.e. `!<tag> <query>`) searches - Optional location-based searching (i.e. results near \<city\>) - Optional NoJS mode to disable all Javascript in results <sup>*If deployed to a remote server, or configured to send requests through a VPN, Tor, proxy, etc.</sup> Whoogle is intended to only ever be deployed to private instances by individuals of any background (although public instances exist), with as little effort as possible. Prior knowledge of/experience with the command line or deploying applications is not necessary to deploy Whoogle, which isn't the case with Searx. As a result, Whoogle is missing some features of Searx in order to be as easy to deploy as possible. Whoogle also only uses Google search results, not Bing/Quant/etc, and uses the existing Google search UI to make the transition away from Google search as unnoticeable as possible. I have been using it for a couple of days and it was easy to install, configure, works reliable, gives good results and looks good.</div>