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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:
Once that's done, click
When the image viewer is open, you can use the following keybinds:
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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 selectAdd "FOSS-Q"
. Then, visit about:preferences#search and select FOSS-Q
in the dropdown menu.On Chromium and Blink based browsers
Click the 3 superpositioned dots at the top right of the screen and click onSettings
, 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:
| Field | Value |
| Search engine | FOSS-Q |
| Shortcut | FOSS-Q |
| URL with %s in place of query | https://fossq.com/web?s=%s |
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?
FOSS-Q is a metasearch engine built by lolcat. It retrieves search results from other well known search engines and then strips away all of the tracking parameters that these search engines put in and which are unnessary as-well-as invasive. Most other alternatives to large search engines claim to be "Privacy Respecting" but fail on this promise very badly. The developer, lolcat, was fed up with this situation and decided to build FOSS-Q, as other open source alternatives don't live up to their their own goals.Goal
The goal of FOSS-Q is aiming to provide 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 FOSS-Q 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. FOSS-Q does not 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. FOSS-Q does 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 FOSS-Q, 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 through 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 through 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.