Use searx and host it yourself, then it’s also ‘European based’

Just to clarify. I have 80 and 443 as TCP and 51820 (sorry for the typo) as UDP. I used the automatic installer script. Doesn’t that generate the config files? If not, then probably there lies my problem.

Pangolin is like cloudflare tunnels, but you can self host it

Instead of a ‘normal’ search engine, you could take a look at a Gpt like replacement, maybe there is one that also protects you your privacy, and it can certainly be used to find what normal search engines could find

Old computer, or Raspberry pi with proxmox and pfsense on it. The positive thing is that you can run other servers as well (pi-hole for example for network wide blocking ads)

It’s been a few months now, so I guess I could try it again

I use both. I like Linux better, even more since W10. It’s spyware, crap, all those nasty things. But hey, I’m a pc gamer and, sadly enough, my games (80% of them) all get funcky in Linux (wine, playonlinux,… I tried it all), so guess I’m stuck with the crap. But again, Linux is far better and superior