Ok sure, thanks for the suggestion, I would make the change as soon as possible. Also, next time, I would make sure to provide a brief description with the release announcement.
We are already planning to have an initial support for this added soon in the coming releases. Right now, we are looking for someone who has more in depth knowledge on how to manage memory more efficiently like reduce heap usages, etc. So if you could help with this, I would suggest letting us know. 🙂
Thanks ❤️ for asking this question. Yes, exactly the search engine does not share any data except the search query and IP address and nothing else making it really private though we will be adding tor and I2P feature which will also remove the concern of sharing the IP address to the upstream search engine as well. 🙂
Yes, it is, but I just wanted to emphasize that my project is also open source and does support privacy. If I don’t add this then it can raise some doubts whether it is open source or not and whether it is privacy respecting or not. So to make it clear, I added it :).
Thanks for the suggestion :). Even I myself hate ads and I avoid doing so, but I just did add that just to emphasize that my project is also open source and does not support ads. Because if I don’t add this then it can raise some doubts whether it is open source or not and whether it supports ads or not. So to make it clear, I added it :).
Thanks for checking out my project :). Though right now we do not provide a public instance right now, but we are already working on this. Like we are working to provide a page dedicated to show all the instances hosted by the community members which will allow others to use them and try them out as well :).
Quick question: will this be self-hosted only or will there be a public instance or something the like?
Yes, actually we are working on providing a page dedicated to allow everyone in the community to contribute their Websurfx instance which will allow others to use them and try them out. Something similar to what Searx does (searx.space). So right now it is still a work in process.
Thanks for the suggestion :). Currently, we don’t have any plans supporting windows and macOS because they are known notoriously bad for privacy reasons. And you may never know what they have in their source code like they are doing all notorious stuff, data mining, you name it. Because of which, we have no plans supporting it as of now, but if we get good amount of feature request in this are then we might consider adding support for these distros too :).
Websurfx 1.15.0 release (programming.dev)
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Websurfx - An open source alternative to Searx which aggregates results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and security in mind. (programming.dev)
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