bug#81071: 32.0.50; emacs -Q eww blocked by public searx instances (simple fix)

Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:02:10 +0200

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Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

> > I had a discussion with Léon Tiekötter who is part of the team
> > that is developing searxng.
> > 
> > What he did _not_ say was that the default behaviour of EWW would be
> > wrong or bad.  He even offered to discuss with the other searxng
> > developers to change the default behavior of searxng instances in a way
> > that would avoid eww to be blocked (by omitting the respective test).
> > 
> > Would you prefer that (over changing eww)?
>
> I guess so.  It would possibly also help other browsers.

There is a good chance that this will happen.  They are currently
redesigning parts of searxng.

People were not eager to make a change here, so let's close this report
for now.

Thx,

Michael.