Yeetfind

What this engine keeps

There is no account and no cookie. Your search is read in memory to answer it and is not written to a disk, a log or a database, and neither is your address, your browser's name or the time you searched. Results link straight to the pages they name, so a site you open is not told what you searched for, and this server is not told which result you chose. The search box sends your words in the request's body, so they are not in your browser's history; a search from the address bar or with 'Search with a link' puts them in the URL, and so in your history and in any history sync your browser does. Whoever runs this machine could change the program to record searches, or read one from memory while it is being answered; this page, SECURITY.md and the published source are how you can check what it does.

The program that reads your search is never told your address: the machine's shared front door passes your encrypted connection through without opening it. That front door sees your address and not your search. On this name, the program that runs the front door could be changed to open it, and a later version will let you search through a relay run by someone else, so that no one party sees both who you are and what you asked.

Right now this engine is open to Yeetline's staff while it is tested. To use it, a person signs in to Yeetline, which hands their browser a pass. The pass is the same for every member of staff for a few hours and says nothing about who holds it, so this server cannot tell one member of staff's searches from another's. It does learn that whoever is asking is on the staff, and the staff are few enough that a time of day can point at a person. Whoever runs this machine could change the program to log passes. Yeetline's chat, which hands out the pass, may reach you through Cloudflare, which could read the pass and cannot read a search.

Where your words go

The pages this engine searches were read ahead of time by Spyder, the Stateless Polite Yeetfind Document Extractor and Retriever, on a schedule of its own and never because somebody searched. Spyder runs on the machine that runs this engine and, when its owner has set up more machines to help, on those; a site sees the address of whichever machine fetched its page, and none of them is yours. Search Pages, Yeetfind Doesn't Ever Remember!

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