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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 . Then, visit about:preferences#search and select 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 , then search for , 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	4get
Shortcut	4get
URL with %s in place of query	https://4get.ca/web?s=%s

Once that's done, click . Then, on the right handside of the newly created entry, open the dropdown menu and select .

Frequently asked questions

what is this?

4get.jpeg.boats is an instance of 4get. 4get is a privacy focused metasearch engine created by lolcat. compared to other metasearch engines that you can host, 4get sucks less so we decided to host it on our server.

Most of the other alternatives to Google jack themselves off about being ""privacy respecting"" or whatever the fuck but it always turns out to be a total lie, and I just got fed up with their shit honestly. Alternatives like Searx or YaCy all fucking sucks so I made my own thing.

- lolcat, 4get.ca

project goal

Provide users with a privacy oriented, extremely lightweight, ad free, free as in freedom (and free beer!) way to search for documents around the internet, with minimal, optional javascript code. My long term goal would be to build my own index (that doesn't suck) and provide users with an unbiased search engine, with no political inclinations.

- lolcat, 4get.ca

do you keep logs?

data is stored temporarly to get the next page of results. this might include search queries, filters and tokens. these parameters are encrypted using on the server, for which you are given decryption key (also known internally as token). when you make a request to get the next page, you supply the token, the data is decrypted and the request is fulfilled. this encrypted data is deleted after 15 minutes, or after it's used, whichever comes first.

IP addresses, user agents, or anything else are not logged. the tokens are the only thing that are stored (in RAM, mind you), temporarly, encrypted.

do you share information with third parties?

your search queries and supplied filters are shared with the scraper you chose (so 4gor can get the search results). other than that, no information is shared with third parties. there is no way that site can know you're the one searching for something, unless you send out a search query that de-anonymises you. for example, a search query like "hello my full legal name is mike oxlong and i want pictures of bbws in my area" would definitively blow your cover. we don't use trackers here.

TL;DR assume the search engines you're using can see what you search for, but can't see who you are (unless you're really dumb).

where is this instance hosted?

this instance is hosted in the Netherlands.
to see a list of all (official) instances, head over to 4get.ca/instances.

keyboard shortcuts?

use to focus the search box.

when the image viewer is open, you can use the following keybinds:
, , , to rotate the image.
, , , to mirror the image.
to exit the image viewer.

how can I trust you?

you can't. we can't really say anything else besides "trust me bro".
if you'd rather trust yourself, you can (and should) host your own instance. the official guide to setting up a 4gor instance can be found here.

support the project

lolcat's ko-fi: ko-fi.com/lolcat
thingers (monero): 4763zBJC26N7kLPoUQBEAMdxidAVdKPJ1Dnj4ujHQZFvPibTET6tCs1CTtHewbAPMxjiwEwsdvhNA3se67Qk3kVtME9hrpH

message to all DMCA enforcers: i don't host any of the content that you might find. everything you see here is proxied through our shitbox with no moderation. please reach out to the people hosting the infringing content instead. thank you and fuck off