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How to reduce the enshittification on various services.

( eg: Payment sites instead of Apps, Ads in Facebook site - I rarely use FB )

Any browser addons, scripts are welcome.

  • leanleft@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I hear people frequently say this.

    Searx is basically a proxy. If you had an actual proxy… you would achieve the exact same benefits. Its good for making it difficult… or extremely difficult to tie a person’s real identity, directly to their search query.
    Another thing that searx does is sends your query to google. This is not good for privacy. But sometimes it gives you additional results.