Markus Heiser

> for which we would need to implement backwards compatibility, if we finally fixed it properly in the future .. that is true .. > But I defer to your...

> But at this point: > * I'm in favor of the `plugins` syntax right now. What does it means related to this PR, is adding `blocked_plugins:` OK for now?...

@dalf ping .. please see https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/759#issuecomment-1016295679

@dalf did you test different languages? When I use "en" I got low quality, when I use en-GB I got better results .. anyway I think bing needs a review...

FYI: I tried to fix the issue but did not had luck. https://github.com/searxng/searxng/compare/master...return42:fix-bing .. in the commit you can see up there on my branch I was able to clean...

Just for reference: bing links are broken / https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/1209

> Yeah the issue seems to be exclusive to my instance/VPS IP... bing also works correctly in my local dev env... Bing-web works on local dev instances but does not...

Just a little bit bikeshedding from mine ... I don't have a clear opinion but I think there is no need for "internal plugins" and for "real external plugins" the...

> We should really be using classes instead (for both plugins and engines). The old searx team had a different opinion .. they were convinced monkey patching was the best...

> These [plugins](https://docs.searxng.org/dev/plugins.html) are theme dependent so they should be implemented in themes (instead of via externally injected CSS / JS) The plugins do no longer import CSS nor JS...