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Problem isn’t the hosting, it’s the content licensing. It’s difficult to get a legal copy of the content that you can actually possess. Without that, doesn’t matter if you are streaming the content through self-hosted servers or playing it locally. It’s the content itself that is the real issue. It’s often just not “sold” only “licensed” or “rented”.

There’s some concern now that Startpage is majority owned by an ad company. The company says they want the ad revenue rather than the user data, but it’s hard to trust that. I used to use it but moved to Searxng.