Yes, adding multiple options other then dockerhub was quite necessary because the current limitations of dockerhub makes it very troubling for the users to pull the image at their side like you know docker recently have added rate limits on image pulls for those users who haven’t authorized/signed up with them.

Thanks ❤ for taking a look at our project, if you need any help then ask them here or DM me. I would be very glad to help. 😊

Yes, sure, no problem, I will answer all you questions one by one:

1. Yes, that’s how it works at high POV but also in a privacy oriented similar to searxng (so only your IP address is shared with the upstream engine but you can spoof that using VPN or by using the proxy feature in websurfx). Additionally we also rerank the search results after fetching search results from the upstream engines, to make it more organic (though, we admit not the best but contributions will help us alot in that area for sure. 😅 )

2. No, currently no, but you can open a feature request issue about it at our project here.

3. Yes, it is stored as a config, cookie and also you can export the cookie from the UI and then import it again (this can be useful if you change browser or clear cookies for some reason).

4. Yes, I explained about it and how to get around with it in the first point. 😅

5. I think it is better to self-host then depend on like an instance because you still have many privacy issues with VPSs (because it is still someone else’s computer), but we do provide privacy enhancing features like encypting cache results which can help in evading the VPS from spying your/users search results in the cache.

6. Not really, as far as I know they don’t block on the basis of that their ads not being displayed but yes there is still a chance that you could flagged by some engines because they want users to use their search engines because they do want to sell the user as their product (which is the same problem, searxng does have too, so there is nothing we can do about it but yes we can improve the bot evasion system, so that even less engines do it and we would welcome contributions in that area). 😅

Also, if you have more questions about anything feel free to ask, we would be very glad to answer them 😊 and we appreciate it 👍 too as it also helps answer and clarify other people’s doubts too.

Yes, you are right but in a privacy oriented manner (only your IP address is shared nothing else - that also you know you can change it via VPN or proxy), your user agent is random every time you make a request, there is random delay added, etc and also no ads in your search results. Moreover we rerank the results on our side (not the most perfect but contributions can help make us make it better). 😅

(Disclaimer: I am the owner of the project)

Thanks ❤️ for having a look at our project, if you need any help then feel free to DM me here or ask it here, I would be glad to help 😊 .

You check out my previous post for it:

https://programming.dev/post/2678496

I explain everything in it in great detail 😅

(Disclaimer: btw, I am the owner of the project)

Thanks for pointing this out, I just improved this by upgrading the algorithm to use tokio::spawn so I think I will update this benchmarks soon.