Brave got investment from the A16Z VC fund, they've been involved in multiple crypto pump and dump schemes (e.g. Axie Infinity).
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@Alphane_Moon, so looks like Brave is not the best option.
I would argue it's not a good alternative and it's fundamentally tied into the US oligarch system.
@Alphane_Moon what would you suggest on Android and Linux?
I like Firefox on Android, you can run full uBlock and Dark Reader.
Be careful using Brave because the owner is a Trump supporter.
Same for proton
Ehhhh do you have more evidence than a couple policy-specific / sycophantic tweets? I'm not sure I'd personally describe it that way
Do you have evidence besides the evidence indeed.
This is a good resource
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/?h=search
I've been using Startpage and I like it. I may try Kagi at some point
I use SearXNG, which is a “metasearch” engine that aggregates results from lots of different ones (you are able to choose whether you want to include google results, ddg results, etc.) and there’s also a bunch of options for searching images, videos, files, and more!
It can be self-hosted or you could always use a public instance (but then that means you have to trust whoever is hosting it with your data)
I've been really enjoying Kagi.
Same. Awesome dev team too, very accessible people on Discord
One reason I've been sticking with DDG is the amount of UI and feature customization it offers. Not just the number of settings but that they are sensible ones: it's stuff I care about. They also have a privacy-friendly way to save and restore these settings.
ignoring any political misgivings, brave’s always been a bloated trash heap that pushes its own ecosystem on you with unnecessary services. my advice would be to use either librewolf or use firefox and manually turn off all the telemetry and useless features you don’t care about (side-eyes pocket). if you are a die-hard chrome user ungoogled chromium seems to be the best option. really anything you might (dubiously) get from brave you can get from a browser that doesn’t try and hawk its cryptocurrency at you.
afaik duckduckgo isn’t terrible but it’s definitely been caught collecting information on your searches. better than google i guess. you could give searx a try though its self-hosted nature means it’s up to the discretion of the host what it wants to collect
Brave is a good browser. It haves a built in ad blocker and the crypto stuff is opt-in not opt-out. Brave Search is good.
duckduckgo censored search results in 2022. Due the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It makes you think if they did once will they do it again.
If you going to use Firefox. Use a folk of it. Seeing how Mozilla is upping it's AI and advertising in Firefox. Here's some good folks, Zen, Floorp, Waterfox.
Mullvad Leta is good search. It uses the Google Search and Brave Search APIs as a proxy and caches each search for 30 days. When a user inputs a web query, the service checks if it has a cache of the search before making a call to the Google Search or Brave Search API.