Being a leecher when you don’t have any alternatives is not something bad.

Both.

Ideally, if you’re hosting a private one, it’s better to share it with your friends since it helps to obfuscate the traffic.

Which settings do you think need to be added that are missing?

The developer is still working on the Google scraper

You can change the search preferences here

Switch to 4get, It’s better. 4get.ca https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get

I use 4get.ca