Hello, how are you guys?

As the title says, what search Ingine are you currently using? I used DuckDuckGo for years, and just recently switched to Brave.

Also, what do you think about the Brave Browser? I have been using FireFox since forever.

Thank you for reading.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      Ad Nauseum is absolutely amazing. Google even admits that by banning it from Chrome.

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      1 year ago

      The important stuff for privacy is his stance on “accidentally” injecting Brave crypto referral links into user sessions and defending it as a way to make money because he got Mozilla to use Google for cash. Eich will sell your data when he decides it’s the best way for Eich to make money. I got into a Twitter slap fight with him around then about the incongruity of his desire to track and sell users. He doesn’t care. Brave also has VC funding from non-privacy actors which means it’s only a matter of time before everything is monetized. Brave’s layoffs come as Brave is working on monetizing everything its free users do.

  • L3ft_F13ld!@links.hackliberty.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      I did a quick search, but I didn’t find any comparison between the two, so I just asked about it.

      A lot of information came out, and I reckon this thread can help someone else down the line.

      Thanks for the comment though. 🤙

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    1 year ago

    Tried Brave Search and felt like it was the closest to Google Search, in terms of a modernized-feel and good UI/UX, but after reading about the company and their questionable ethics, I switched to DDG instead. I’ll sacrifice my experience to avoid the more suspect company

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    1 year ago

    @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

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        1 year ago

        @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

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          1 year ago

          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.

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            @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

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    1 year ago

    “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.

  • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    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

    • Mojeek Search Engine@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      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.