- It always seemed like Leta was on thin ice since it queried Googles Search API and then cached the results for 30 days, which I believe is against Googles TOS. I wonder if they finally noticed and got mad.
https://developers.google.com/terms
> you will not [...] keep cached copies longer than permitted by the cache header
- a bit tangential but has anyone noticed a serious degredation in quality with duckduckgo? its become completely unusable and ive had to switch to Bing :(
My guess is search's days are numbered and companies are "pivoting" away to other projects
a shutdown is preferable to silent bitrot
by holysoles
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- For anyone looking at alternatives, I've been a user of searxng for awhile and have found it to be pretty solid.
- What exactly did it do? And why can't it do that anymore?
- Sad to see it go, at the same time I never used it and it seems that the rationale is highly pragmatic, so you certainly won't find me protesting the decision.
Privacy is an uphill battle, we should use our efforts where they make the most impact.
- Well, I called it out 5 months ago. It wasn't viable. :(
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117601
- I use Mullvad for VPN and how no idea they had this! Are there other services should I be aware of?
by wafriedemann
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- more important than a proxy is having an alternative to google because it is crazy how much they censor search results. just add brave search as a secondary.
- Damn.. I just learned about this.
by dvntsemicolon
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- Yeah I expected that to happen eventually. It's a shame.
- fair enough- i used it a few times but brave was just more convenient- also for everyone here brave does its' own indexing and you can downrank and uprank sites and it will remember it without an accout
by charcircuit
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- >Similar privacy can be achieved through the combination of a VPN and a privacy-focused browser.
Mullvad sell a VPN and privacy-focused browser so how are they unable to proxy the searches themselves? They already have the needed tools developed.
by IlikeKitties
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- If you want good search results, open up a tor browser and use yandex.ru. The difference in search result quality is eye-opening.
Still hope Russia looks like Berlin in '45 soon but until then, you can't deny they got the better search engine.
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