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[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

I switched to Duck Duck Go and Firefox and have never looked back.

Brave always seemed kinda scummy to me, like they're robbing Peter to pay Paul.

[-] aku@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 year ago

didn't ddg have it's own problems a while ago?

[-] Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

They sold data to Microsoft, iirc, but that was the Android browser, not the search engine (something people forget to mention)

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I don't really wanna use a meta search engine that just pulls their results from bing or google though. That doesn't seem like a sustainable way to build an actual alternative, since eventually google and Microsoft may just choose to change their api terms of service. I'd much prefer to support something independent if I can

Thats no reason for you to switch, just an explanation for why I went with brave. I switched to duckduckgo first and found the results weren't great for me, so I changed to brave anf have found the results better, and they have their own index rather than taking other people's search results, but instead they're taking other people's web content and selling rights to it ๐Ÿ™ƒ. The company seems a little... Lacking :(

[-] DeflectedBullhorn@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, DuckDuckGo is just Bing with additional privacy these days. Effectively is is what Startpage is for Google.

Brave Search is one of the only independent search indexes available these days. Others include Mojeek and Qwant, but neither are as good as Brave Search.

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