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Searx instances no more come with Morty Proxy? 😕

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in reply to KREYREN

It's a proxy service inbuilt into some Searx instances.
"proxify all the result URLs with an external service, morty."

searx.github.io/searx/admin/mo…

Now, I don't see it in any Searx instance!

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in reply to Dr. Percy

Bummer! OTOH, Morty Proxy was almost always broken for me & gave some error about the intent of Morty Proxy when I clicked on a MP link. At least the most privacy-respecting search service¹ still gives cached links if you click the favicon. 1. ombrelo.pkduaxfk6lrmo2be4yr6ke5pqzsujihywsggfb7tocnz7x3vqqkhfoqd.onion

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in reply to Dr. Percy

I recall that some had it and some did not. Has there been a change that makes that mandatory? BTW, I just noticed openworlds.info has morty. Does that mean they’re running an older version of searx, and will lose it when they upgrade?

Dr. Percy reshared this.

in reply to KREYREN

That doesn't really answer the question. An upgrade w/out morty may or may not break an existing morty installation, depending on how it’s typically installed to begin with. Usually upgrades don’t tamper with config settings.
in reply to Dr. Percy

searx.tux.land/ still supports this proxy service, I don't know why its not seen in other searx instances.

I've been actually wanting to ask @tio about this, will you be able to add this to search.trom.tf sometime ? 🤔

@kreyren

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in reply to Tio

Maybe someone should request @yunohost to add it, I think a lot of other searx instances would also run this service if YNH added it..... 🤔

@frankie @kreyren

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in reply to Dr. Percy

Rather than use a proxied search engine that just proxies censored results, use a real search engine that doesn't record your info OR censor your results such as yacy, my node is yacy.eskimo.com/.