Thanks, I’ll individually look into all of these ♥️ I’ll say some of them are more conscious compromises for the sake of an open scalable system where third party extensions can truly edit anything (intentionally) and everything around Auth/secure cookie is also fairly lax due to the fact the Auth is just a protection for the settings (which literally stop the settings from being served by the client), in the moment I decide to add some more structured Auth system/maybe users I’ll look into proper secure cookie handling.

This is an awesome report, thank you so much for sharing it!!!

degoog Dev here, definitely not vibecoded. Would you be able to tell me all these whack of privacy issues? I thought I had everything covered, but if you found something concerning it’d be nice to know before I get it out of beta :)

Hey, not sure what you mean, it works perfectly fine as rootless. Are you using docker or podman? Someone else had this issue with podman and we couldn’t figure out why it was different for them.

Everyone else is running this as user 1000, which is what the standard compose requires?

YES please, if you could let me know if you figure this one out it’d be great, especially if it’s due to podman so I can send a message in my discord for the other user who was struggling with it :)

Aw thank you so much for giving it a try and leaving such a nice feedback ♥️ I am searching in a slightly different way than searxng, can’t promise it’ll work forever but for now it seems to be doing the trick ♥️ I have some more improvements to the search system coming with the next release as Bing does get blocked quite often for me.

P.s. have you been using any extensions? If so what’s your fave so far? Haha

Hi, this needs to be selfhosted in order for you to use it, it’s not an app :) You can definitely use it from IOS once you have it running tho

Hey thank you!

The issue with GitHub alternatives is the lack of runners/pipelines and restricting functionalities.

Gitlab is a good alternative but I use it for work and having two accounts juggling between work/personal projects is a recipe for disaster.

I spent a bit of time on codeberg and I am checking it out, happy to push the repo there too, but they don’t seem to provide pipeline options, so I wouldn’t be able to build the docker image there like I do on GitHub :)

Btw whilst I do believe into the whole Microsoft scraping projects to train AI regardless of licenses, I wouldn’t say they are hostile towards open source. They actually are extremely for it, vscode is free and one of the best IDEs out there for example, GitHub free plan is VERY generous and they have a whole FREE coding academy with extremely in-depth courses on how to learn programming and various niche topics. And they integrated wsl to seamlessly run Linux commands within windows, which I never thought I’d see happen (been there for years, but I’m just giving you examples).

Thank you! I mean, I am not trying to compete with Google, maybe when I release out of beta I’ll let the community that’s slowly creating around it decide a new name, we’ll see ♥️ wouldn’t be the first time I do that with my apps :)

Thank you so much!! Let me know if you run into any issue, it’s fairly stable for a beta, but I’m sure there’s a ton of quirks that still need sorting ❤

This is stupidly cool omg

4get.ca

Oh that’s quite nice actually! Never seen it! Suppose it’s very minimal tho, I’ll do some market research to scope the competition lol I feel like more alternatives make a better internet, if you ask me :)

p.s. thank you! sorted out the readme, my bad

I can see a dogdog theme about to happen 🤣

Nice! Thank you! Let me know how you get on! :)

Ow that’s a big compliment, thank you! I think it’s just different rather than better as it focuses on user experience more than niche features. It’s meant to be an easy way to move out of using Google daily, without too much of a learning curve

Glad you are enjoying it ♥️

Hey! If you go to settings -> store you will find all the plugins/themes/engines I made and use the docs/existing plugins as examples to make your own, I tried to build a variety of them to cover most aspects of customisations ♥️

Glad you like it! I saw you joined discord so feel free to ping me for more direct questions :)

Yaaas! Let me know how you get on with it ♥️

YES! Customisation is the main reason why I went out of my way to build it, and other stuff I listed in another comment in the thread :)

Thank you, if you ever end up making a store with your own plugins/themes and so on just lemme know and I’ll add it to the repo, it’d be cool to have a list of available stores already in the beta version, so when I go out of beta it’ll feel like a much more mature product <3

lol it’s a play on the cron syntax, the * is a o in the name/logo

Yes, I think that’s also very valid, the more people using the same instance the more likely it’ll be to get banned, but again, rotating proxy is key to this I suppose

Hey! Well, aside from rotating multiple user agents, have a cheeky retry and having a “retry” button next to each engine I also heavily cache results so that for 12 hours the same query will give you the same results from cache. You can always invalidate cache from the settings.

Another thing you can also do is add multiple proxy that rotate on each request, traffic goes through proxy urls and you don’t get hit with rate limiting (again, proxy settings are in the settings tab - you can find free ones around).

Searches happen asyncronously btw, which means if one engine hangs and fails the others will still return results quickly enough that clicking on the retry button shouldn’t be that big of an issue. The biggest engine I have had issues with has been Ecosia, always hitting that pesky cloudflare anti bot page, but that’s a third party extension engine, so it doesn’t matter too much

So far I haven’t been rate limited by google yet, not gonna claim it won’t happen as it probably will, it’s the nature of the tool, but finger crossed so far so good.

Yeah, I mean, with or without AI, I’ve always only had a big pull request for releases, from a stable release branch into the main branch, the release branch would be a merge of various branches or just be worked on directly on various stages.

One big pull request doesn’t really mean anything.