We're reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not.
Now more than ever, it's important for us to step back and reconsider whether we want to billboards for these companies anymore.
For anyone unfamiliar, some good resources to have when starting your degoogling are below:
Privacy Guides - A list of privacy-respecting services you can use.
Plexus - A crowdsourced information bank of service compatibility with degoogled devices.
This random PDF - A study from 2018 detailing data that Google tracks about its' users.
If I wasn't living in a third world sithole I'd had self hosted everything from searx to as search engine to alt front-ends and down to creatng my own Netflix with plex (jellyfin?) and the *arr family
I have been selfhosting Jellyfin on and off for the last few years, amazing open source program! I fail to see the advantage of a one user searx instance over multi-user anonymized instances--still considering spinning one up eventually