[help] convert about.html to Markdown

To facilitate translation the new user documentation shall be written in
Markdown (which is more human-friendly than HTML and reStructuredText).

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-<div{% if rtl %} dir="ltr"{% endif %}>
-  <h1>About <a href="{{ url_for('index') }}">searxng</a></h1>
-
-  <p>
-    SearXNG is a fork from the well-known <a href="https://github.com/searx/searx">searx</a>
-    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine"> metasearch engine</a>,
-    aggregating the results of other <a href="{{ url_for('preferences') }}">search engines</a>
-    while not storing information about its users.
-  </p>
-
-  <p>More about SearXNG ...</p>
-
-  <ul>
-    <li><a href="{{ searx_git_url }}">SearXNG sources</a></li>
-    <li><a href="https://weblate.bubu1.eu/projects/searxng/">weblate</a></li>
-  </ul>
-
-  <hr />
-
-  <h2>Why use it?</h2>
-
-  <ul>
-    <li>
-      SearXNG may not offer you as personalised results as Google, but it doesn't
-      generate a profile about you.
-    </li>
-    <li>
-      SearXNG doesn't care about what you search for, never shares anything with a
-      third party, and it can't be used to compromise you.
-    </li>
-    <li>
-      SearXNG is free software, the code is 100% open and you can help to make
-      it better.  See more on <a href="{{ searx_git_url
-      }}">SearXNG sources</a>.
-    </li>
-  </ul>
-
-  <p>
-    If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, or otherwise
-    believe in digital freedom, make SearXNG your default search engine or run
-    it on your own server
-  </p>
-
-  <h2>Technical details - How does it work?</h2>
-
-  <p>
-    SearXNG is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a>,
-    inspired by the <a href="https://beniz.github.io/seeks/">seeks project</a>.
-
-    It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other
-    platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request
-    on every browser (except Chromium-based browsers*).  Therefore they show up
-    in neither our logs, nor your url history. In the case of Chromium-based
-    browser users there is an exception: searx uses the search bar to perform GET
-    requests.
-
-    SearXNG can be added to your browser's search bar; moreover, it can be set as
-    the default search engine.
-  </p>
-
-  <h2 id='add to browser'>How to set as the default search engine?</h2>
-
-  <p>
-    SearXNG supports <a href="https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch/blob/master/opensearch-1-1-draft-6.md">OpenSearch</a>.
-    For more information on changing your default search engine, see your browser's documentation:
-  </p>
-
-  <ul>
-    <li><a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox">Firefox</a></li>
-    <li><a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028574/microsoft-edge-change-the-default-search-engine">Microsoft Edge</a></li>
-    <li>Chromium-based browsers <a href="https://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search">only add websites that the user navigates to without a path.</a>
-  </ul>
-
-  <h2>Where to find anonymous usage statistics of this instance ?</h2>
-
-  <p>
-    <a href="{{ url_for('stats') }}">Stats page</a> contains some useful data about the engines used.
-  </p>
-
-  <h2>How can I make it my own?</h2>
-
-  <p>
-    SearXNG appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the code from
-    the <a href="{{ searx_git_url }}">SearXNG project</a> and
-    run it yourself!
-  </p>
-  <p>
-    Add your instance to this <a href="{{ get_setting('brand.public_instances') }}"> list of
-    public instances</a> to help other people reclaim their privacy and make the
-    Internet freer!  The more decentralized the Internet is, the more freedom we
-    have!
-  </p>
-
-  <h2>Where are the docs & code of this instance?</h2>
-
-  <p>
-    See the <a href="{{ get_setting('brand.docs_url') }}">SearXNG docs</a>
-    and <a href="{{ searx_git_url }}">SearXNG sources</a>
-  </p>
-
-</div>
-{% include "__common__/aboutextend.html" ignore missing %}