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Set as default search engine

On Firefox and other Gecko based browsers

To set this as your default search engine on Firefox, right click the URL bar and select
Add "4get"
. Then, visit about:preferences#search and select
4get
in the dropdown menu.

On Chromium and Blink based browsers

Click the 3 superpositioned dots at the top right of the screen and click on
Settings
, then search for
default search engine
, or visit chrome://settings/searchEngines.

Once you're there, click the pencil on the last entry under "Search engines" (it's probably DuckDuckGo). Once you do that, a popup will appear. Populate it with the following information:
FieldValue
Search engineFbIN 4G
ShortcutFbIN 4G
URL with %s in place of queryhttps://4g.flossboxin.org.in/web?s=%s
Once that's done, click
Save
. Then, on the right handside of the newly created entry, open the dropdown menu and select
Make default
.

Frequently asked questions

What is this?

4get is a metasearch engine built by lolcat to retrieves search results from other well known search engines and then strips away all of the tracking parameters that these search engines put in that are unnessary and are invasive. Most other alternatives to large search engines such as Google and Microsoft Bing claim to be "Privacy Respecting" but fail on this promise such as Esosia for example. The developer, lolcat, was fed up with this situation and decided to build 4get, as other alternatives like Searx and YaCy don't live up to their expectation.

Goal

The goal of 4get is to aim at providing end-users with a privacy-oriented, extremely lightweight, ad-free, free as in freedom way to search for documents around the world wide web with mimimal optional JavaScript. The long-term goal would to eventfully get 4get to build it's own and provide users with an unbiased search engine, with no political inclinations.

Do you share information with third parties?

Your search queries and supplied filters are shared with the scraper you chose. FbIN 4G and 4get don't share anything else like your IP address or location.There is no way for a site to know you're the one searching for the query you put in. FbIN 4G and 4get do not and never will serve advertisements or 3rd-party JavaScript applets or trackers on it's instance(s).When you submit a search query through 4get, the scraper see's our server as the person sending the search, not you.

Where is this website hosted?

My instance is hosted in Germany.

Keyboard shortcuts?

Use
/
to focus the search box.

When the image viewer is open, you can use the following keybinds:
Up
,
Down
,
Left
,
Right
to rotate the image.
CTRL+Up
,
CTRL+Down
,
CTRL+Left
,
CTRL+Right
to mirror the image.
Escape
to exit the image viewer.

How can I trust you?

You just sort of have to take my word for it right now. If you'd rather trust yourself instead of me (I believe in you!!), all of the code on this website is available trough my git page for you to host on your own machines. Just a reminder: if you're the sole user of your instance, it doesn't take immense brain power for Microsoft to figure out you basically just switched IP addresses. Invite your friends to use your instance!

I want to report abuse trough email

If you want to talk to me, just drop me an email...

Message to all DMCA enforcers: I don't host any of the content. Everything you see here is proxied through my serverbox with no moderation. Please reach out to the people hosting the infringing content instead.

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