[email protected] wrote:
Searx appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the code and run it yourself!
I don't see how running a metasearch engine yourself helps you keep your privacy so long as queries are made from your computer to the search engines you depend on.
Let's say I do not want to run it myself for ecological reasons. What does searx have in its logs? Did one of you take a look at the code? DockDuckGo, Ixquick and Startpage promise that they neither store the IP address of their users nor their user agents. We cannot verify because we do not have the source code... however nobody can know whether searx.me really runs the code it pretends to run. I would feel better if searx.me would do the same promise.
You wouldn't know what any SASS runs regardless of whether that SASS is released as free software. That's why SASS software freedom concerns are a moot point for users (but not SASS providers) and why SASS is such a danger to users. This is also why people like Richard Stallman are clear to distinguish the freedom concerns of SASS from the freedom concerns of programs running on one's own computer.
