Since about a day or two, Every search I do on Firefox which defaults to the searx instance of Privacy Tools, does not return a single page, until I go to settings -> Enginges and turn off Google, but since I don’t want to keep cookies for the page, it has become horrible to search with it. I really like Searx but if this persists I will have to go back to DDG.
Any Ideas as why this is happening? Is it only me?
Confirmed here, too. Startpage and Google seem to be blocking results to searx. (Startpage told me a while back their block is automatic and due to an anti-abuse mechanism that addresses scraping.) I also tried the La Quadrature instance with the same 0 results when only using Startpage. When I reset to default, Google comes back with an error.
Google is always a problem. Startpage is sometimes a problem.
I understand that google is a problem, but startpage because it is?
I should clarify. I’ve never had luck with Google at searx in the last year or so. Startpage is often not a default selection at public instances and usually has a “not supported” memo. Unless you use an instance with SP selected or purposely select it, SP won’t be an issue.
When I purposely select SP, it sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. The SP anti-abuse mechanism likely kicks in to stop what is perceived to be scraping. So Google is always a problem.
btw - welcome @wuniversales
This sucks, I am changing back my default search engine in my browser to DuckDuckGo I hope this can be fixed soon so I can move back to searx in privacytools.
Kind of related. Would it be possible to have one instance with SFW searches enabled?