This is a metasearch engine that gets results from other engines, and strips away all of the tracking parameters and bloat. It is based on the open source project 4get.
Provide users with a privacy oriented, extremely lightweight, ad-free, free as in freedom (and free beer!) way to search for documents around the internet, with minimal, optional JavaScript code.
Data is stored temporarily to get the next page of results. This might include search queries, filters and tokens. These parameters are encrypted using libsodium on the server, for which you are given a decryption key (also known internally as npt token). When you make a request to get the next page, you supply the token, the data is decrypted and the request is fulfilled. This encrypted data is deleted after 15 minutes, or after it's used, whichever comes first.
By default, 4get only needs this temporary request state to function. Instance operators may choose to keep additional logs at the webserver, PHP, or infrastructure level, so you should review the policies published by the operator of the instance you are using.
Your search queries and supplied filters are shared with the scraper you chose, because that is how results are fetched. Beyond that, what is retained or forwarded depends on the operator and the upstream services being queried.
There is no practical way for those upstream services to know who you are from 4get alone, but they can still see the search terms that are sent to them. Avoid sending queries that identify you directly. FSKY Search does not require third-party JavaScript trackers or ads to function.
You just sort of have to take the operator's word for it unless they publish more detail. If you'd rather verify things yourself, the software is open source and can be hosted on your own machines. Just a reminder: if you're the sole user of your instance, it is easier for upstream services to infer that requests belong to you. Privacy improves when more people share the same instance.
Please head over to the instance browser page, select an instance and click on "IP lookup".
Use / to focus the search box.
When the image viewer is open, you can use the following keybinds:
Up, Down, Left, Right to rotate the image.
CTRL+Up, CTRL+Down, CTRL+Left, CTRL+Right to mirror the image.
Escape to exit the image viewer.
Donation and sponsorship links are available on the donate page.
If you need to contact the operator of this instance, please use whatever contact channel they have published.
Message to all DMCA enforcers: This instance does not claim ownership of the proxied content it displays. Please direct takedown requests to the hosts serving the original material.
The source code for the software used by this instance is available from this project's 4get repository.