DDG isn’t NEARLY as private as it should be, mind you. But IMO their points here are still valid.

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        But the default behaviour of self hosted searx is to expose the server’s IP to the actual search engines, do you use VPN or something at the server side?

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      yeah i think this is deliberate obfuscation of their own very recent issue with privacy wrt bing trackers that a security researcher blew the whistle on.