Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Personally I am not a fan of brave. Between running their own crypto currency, inserting affiliate links to pages and an advert revenue share. It seems like they are trying to be a middleman to your web experience.
I have been a Firefox user since 2004ish and mainly runAdnausem and consent-o-matic to keep my web experience as clean as possible.
It is always funny to look into my Adnausem ad vault to see what people are trying to advertise to me.
Brave is a series scammer and every few days somebody seems to be posting about it on Lemmy. It's really looking like an ad campaign.
Ad Nauseum is absolutely amazing. Google even admits that by banning it from Chrome.
Using privacy and Brave in the same sentence is a quite a leap.
I just realized it 😂
Brave is an ad company. Don't use Brave.
For the record, I use SearXNG with Librewolf
I am so curious about LibreWolf. I am gonna try it soon on my daily laptop (Linux of course 😂).
I've been using it for a long time, I haven't run into any issues with it.
I will use Firefox until the day it completely stops existing. You can pry it from my cold, dead hands. In regards to search engines, I'm using Startpage these days. I am actively looking around for something else that is free as in beer, useful, and reliable. I want to set and forget it, not constantly manage it because the instance I use is down or something.
presearch 👍
I'll check that out thanks.
@Sterben tho this post might not be doing so but still dont get why people like to compare and pick only 1 search engine to use forever
Just use all of them. Try all. Everyone has unique needs
Each company has differences in indexing. Tho the duck is Bing based, it chose to block "russian propaganda". For something as vast as the net, using 1 engine is like using only 1 eye to see the world
For a truly open perspective, use multiple! Only for convenience's of daily searches, maybe pick one
Just use all of them.
so what you're saying is use SearXNG
@eya Kind of. But all engines have their own unique features too
Google/Startpage has quick snippets
Brave has Toggles. Duckduckgo has bangs
Baidu/Yandex/Naver has immense localisation
Bing has OpenAI
Under competition, companies will innovate. Thats what this is. Forcing Google to innovate
For that we've to support them all. meta engines are good for what they are. But it cant have those extra features. Search isnt only about the results. Like how YouTube isnt *just* about the video
Google doesn't need to innovate when they have almost a 65% market share. They could implement malware into the browser and people would still use it.
@eya exactly but they werent always like that.
Google's like Microsoft now. The very company they destroyed both in so many key markets. They were innovative.
Its the 97% search share and 70% Browser share thats the problem.
How Google, an AI company for over a decade, got so shock by newcomer OpenAI? Out of box thinking. What google itself used to be about
Thats what we need. Competition. Not anti trust trials or regulations. But prodcuts like chatgpt & Brave to make big companies innovate
I'm using metager.org, because I won't trust a closed-source service like DDG or profit-driven company like Brave to not censor their search results.
I'd recommend a searxng instance.
"Yes, a security researcher revealed this week that even DuckDuckGo, which markets itself as "the internet privacy company," made an exception for its business partner Microsoft to its browser's blocking of some advertising trackers on websites, sparking accusations of betraying its purported privacy ethos."
No offense but I am not sure why people trust duckduckgo or brave. Brave for the obvious concerns with controversy surrounding their CEO. And duckduckgo for essentially being diet bing.
And the Duck also has a sketchy CEO
Brave is not a bad browser, but it uses Chromium under the hood. That is bad, because it supports Google's monopoly on browser rendering engines. You can either stick to Firefox, or check out LibreWolf. It's Firefox but with uBlock Origin preinstalled and all the privacy features already enabled and configured.
I must give props to Brave Search for its AI summarizer, which suprisingly does a pretty good job at using high quality sources from its index to give you a brief synopsis of the query.
True, I honestly like that too.
I use all of them, at once, with searx.
Used Brave for a bit during August and liked it (mainly their Discussions feature) but stopped using it since I always liked Startpage. I see a few mentions of Mojeek here, so I'll give it a shot
Edit: Spelling correction (shot from shit kekw)
Edit II: Mojeek's results are bad
We're always on the lookout for feedback so if you use us again or are willing to send in the searches then it really helps us improve, the Eval Page is also worth mentioning for sending us these in a more interactive way. There's a new testing algo up there currently.
DDG uses bing and they filter results based on their biased opinion. Just give me results let me care about the rest! Brave has a limited index, plus not a huge fan of their crypto scam. StartPage gets results from Google and seems better than the above two. But Google itself filters results so not great. tbh, to get unfiltered great results try Yandex, they do have good index and seem no or less filtering. It would be great if SearX would provide a wrapper around Yandex, but AFAIK Yandex blocks bots and non-human interactions and it is hard to add SearX support. Kagi - I don't want an extra subscription.
For now, I think SearX/Whooper instances are good enough
I'd never get into the Brave ecosystem. Have been trialing Kagi, it's been doing on par with Google thus far but I haven't trialed it hard.
I use Brave Search and Firefox. But sometimes i have to use Chromium for compatibility issues although it is so rare.
Why did you switch?
Just curiosity to be honest. But I see that there aren't many diversities between the DDG and Brave, so I may as well get back to DDG.
I gave brave search 2 goes over some years apart. everytime I get a captcha I said f u brave. duckduck not a single captcha.
I'm using presearch.com these days and I'm rather pleased with that
Thanks, I am gonna try it.
Same here, I mostly use brave search with occasional !ecos. Although, both companies have made questionable stuff in their browsers (ddg -- not blocking m$ trackers, brave -- similar stuff with trackers, don't remember which, plus the whole affiliate link debacle).
In the end, the best thing is to use Firefox with Ads / Trackers Blocker.
Brave seems alright as a search Ingine, but its CEO looks fishy so I am not sure if I am gonna keep using it.