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What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like

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  • That is awesome. A little beyond me but I've played in docker a bit. Is a VPN needed to keep your ip from being exposed ?

    Is just using an existing searxng instance just less secure then?

    Is a VPN needed to keep your ip from being exposed ?

    No more so than using any search engine directly, it's a nice to have. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.

    Is just using an existing searxng instance just less secure then?

    By the time you've investigated it, you could have stood up your own instance...

  • Thanks for taking my trolling in good stride. I actually loved the internet of 20 years ago. It was totally different from today, it's actually a shame a lot of the way it was is gone forever. I vividly remember frequenting a few blogs, just slow chatting in the comments, making your own response images, hosting your own stuff like these images, sound clips and whatever else. Most ISP's would give you some server space to host your own static html pages, and lot's of people used this. The blogs would host photoshop contests, link to stuff they liked, reported on news or music or whatever their niche. The blogs I visited are mostly still around today, but they just don't draw the engagement anymore.

    I'm just sad I'm too young to have ever seen that old internet, and what it was like...

    Makes me more determined to try and steer the current internet back in that direction though.