UM ... so while playing with this issue, I thought I would grab a "vanilla" firefox to work with (I got my normal firefox so hacked with #fuckoffgoogle scripts and mods that I thought maybe it was breaking things) - and you know what .... a clean FF has no trouble with following my channel ... next I will try to remote comment

Uggh - I hope I haven't wasted everybody's time with this

all the #searx instances I was used to using were failing me, so I rolled my own. removed google and enabled a whole bunch of other search engines. now I get search results from varied sources without my person being subjected to tracking, spying or data-mining.
like a boss.

#googlefree #fuckoffgoogle #selfhost #freesoftware