lol no I just didn’t realize I had my stuff configured wrong. But I was searching for Piefed with the intent to join bc Lemmy’s devs suck and yeah, shit’s good. So if you want, you can consider this reply an ad for Piefed, tho it’s actually a neutral endorsement :3

Yeah, that’s why I’m getting away from them. Thankfully the issue I was having seems to be a config issue and not a problem with SearxNG.

Yeah I didn’t realize my settings weren’t configured right, so I did so, came back today and found they were switched back! That’s why I was struggling. I have SearxNG in my whitelist for cookies too, so no idea why that’s happening. With the settings changed, it works great!

Whaaat? That’s bizarre, I swear I had that set.

Nope, it wasn’t set. Still returned weird results so I’ll try that configuration the other commenter posted.

I know. I’m trying not to use DuckDuckGo because of their AI support. I was told this was a good search engine to use instead, but it often spits random stuff back at me.