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Comment Re:Use Tor Browser and Startpage (Score 1) 50

I created an account to answer the previous comment, and I can't resist suggesting that Meta-Press.es works also very well once installed on the TorBrowser. (The next release will fix the current display quirks). As stated in the above comment, Meta-Press.es is a libre software meta-search engine for the press, it's a WebExtension and it's fully decentralized. Meta-Press.es protects the privacy of users on a verifiable base (you don't have to trust that it's not saving your logs somewhere) : there is no Meta-Press.es server involved with your searches. With Meta-Press.es there is no middleman between your newspapers and your web browser. Then, no ad tracker (nor social ones) are activated on the newspaper side while using Meta-Press.es. About privacy, the permissions you give to this WebExtension (to read the content of your sources for you) are fine grained (source by source) and can be automatically dropped after each search if you want. It's a good companion to TorBrowser.

Comment Re:Would search indexes be a thing of the past? (Score 1) 50

Hi, I'm the main dev of Meta-Press.es. Meta-Press.es is a meta-search engine, it queries the search feature of each targeted newspaper and aggregates the results in chronological order. In the particular case of the press, where the date is the main relevency criteria between "news", it works well and 100 sources can be fetched in a few seconds. Newspapers are scrapped from the web (or RSS feeds of results), one by one. So you save, at each query, the time that the developpers spent parsing the newspapers for you :-) Then, a lot of work is currently done for the next release (and it will fix some broken sources), but already 86 english-speaking sources are integrated. To finish, adding a new source to Meta-Press.es costs about 5 CSS selectors, contributions are welcome ! We already have : all kind of newspapers, scientific press, agendas and are working toward a child-safe content category.

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