Let's make our forums safer
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We like to share a lot of links here, but unfortunately, some of them contain non-free javascript, cookies, advertising and trackers.
But must of us don't like that kind of links, so i suggest that we begin to share links from the proxy of ixquick.com or startpage.com.
It is really easy all the results on those pages have a proxy option, and we can share those links instead of the normal link.
Even Richard Stallman uses it: (This link is not from ixquick proxy I now... the irony... but is because it is from stallman.org so you don't have to worry ;) )
For searching, I have mostly used DuckDuckGo for the past couple of years. It does work with JS disabled, but you have to follow a link before you search.
I also sometimes use ixquick.com.
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I don't understand: what does it do? To me a link is just a link: the end result is the same, no matter what I do.
Again:
We are a free software comunity, as such, I want to invite all the comunity to share the most secure links, that respect people's freedom and privacy.
If startpage.com or ixquick are not secure and free enough I am sure there must be a better option out there, it just happens that I haven't heard of it. But I would love to hear a suggestion.
I think we could both agree that Freedom is worth the inconvenience and if that means taking a little extra step just to copy a link and paste it in a search provider just to get a proxy link it is better to do so.
Better than sharing non-free and privacy invasive websites and just asume that people is protected against those links.
Free software is about what we share and how we share it. Not only about using a free OS.
Let's put it another way.
Let's consider a malicious URL. Does it matter if the URL I share is from a safe search engine results page? No, because as soon as you click on the that URL, eventually you'll end up on the page anyway by clicking on the malicious URL.
A bottle of poison shared in a (supposedly) safe box doesn't change a thing. It's up to you to check whether the box is worth opening, or if you have taken your anti-poison beforehand.
As for free search engines, duckduckgo, startpage and ixquick are supposedly better than google and co.
But it's still a service on someone else's server.
Searx is a meta search engine that collects the query results from several engines, and filters the data about yourself. Or something like that, I'm not too sure actually.
You can install this on your own server. But you can also use trusted servers, which technically doesn't make it much different than other search engines.
But yeah, a URL is just a URL. There's no way to make it safer besides using https-everywhere yourself, and thus sharing https links automatically (except those websites that don't have https).
Using some sort of proxy service isn't necessarily "safer" or more secure. Ixquick seems trustworthy, but you can't know for sure, and if it turns out that they are malicious, using their proxy service will do harm rather than good. What's more, what's going to happen if this forum is filled with proxy links and the proxy service goes down? The forum will be filled with a bunch of useless dead links.
Those proxy links are not even meant to be shared, anyway. I don't know if they persist, but regardless, those are gigantic URLs. The purpose of the proxy service is to protect your anonymity while you search.
Isn't this a case of software as a service? I think you can get free browser plugins that do all the things that proxy does, and they are under your control rather than on some server.
Some examples being HTTPS everywhere and noscript. Any others?
No, it's different. A proxy service hides your identity. HTTPS and NoScript do not do this. That being said, Tor is much more secure than just trusting a single proxy run by someone you're not even paying.
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