{
"$type": "site.standard.document",
"bskyPostRef": {
"cid": "bafyreiaaabcg7elxyaiczyegvkafmts4ec4c5syyzaqxkzos7dediya2xi",
"uri": "at://did:plc:haakkg7y3xdghcdmprxeexso/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml75thd7sge2"
},
"path": "/t/hister-a-free-self-hosted-personal-search-engine/37668?page=2#post_28",
"publishedAt": "2026-05-06T16:46:04.000Z",
"site": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net",
"tags": [
"@asciimoo",
"Hister"
],
"textContent": "spell:\n\n> Forgive me if I am wrong and that is what you were trying to say @asciimoo, but I don’t believe that he has said DuckDuckGo is doing these things at all. **All I have seen him say is that using DuckDuckGo requires trust, same as Google or most other services** , and he wants to eliminate that element of trust.\n\nI agree, this is what I understood from Hister and to my understanding it is true. Search Engines are inherently problematic for privacy because you need to send the plaintext query/content to a third-party for it to be processed and return results. You can mitigate some of the metadata and fingerprinting problems (non-captcha’d Tor/VPN usage, JavaScript-free support, proxying etc.) but you cannot get around the original problem.",
"title": "Hister: A free & self-hosted personal search engine"
}