• PetriEnglish
      4•7 days ago

      thanks, i heard and tried it already many times but:

      • I need to self-host (fine for doing it locally but im wary of opening it to access outside the network and be open to external threats since i wouldnt know how to properly handle that so i went for trying to selfhost 4get for being more lightweight)
      • find a trustworthy instance (don’t know how, i dont mind much on what instance i choose for YouTube frontend proxies but for searches i want to be more careful, maybe if there was a search extension to randomize instance between EU-based instances i’d feel more comfortable since its what made me pivot to Startpage years ago as it was purely a EU-based company)
      • @Prathas@lemmy.zip
        1•6 days ago

        TROM Search via https://search.trom.tf/?q=%25s will cycle through instances. Sometimes the results suck but you can simply rerun your query. This is what I currently use for everything by default.