Brave’s search engine is described by the company as “the first independent privacy search/browser alternative to big tech”.

And I don't really appreciate some of PG's response/actions around it either.Brave’s search engine beta promises user privacyīrave is launching its own search engine. I would ideally use Mojeek, but its results are simply unusable for me 80% of the time.Īs to PTIO, there's a whole load controversy/drama around that, and while i believed PG and switched to it, the whole situation annoys me, probably because after reading the PTIO blogpost its no longer black and white, even reading the blogpost with the viewpoints that its probably misinformation. I value the independent index, while still supplementing results with google and bing. I actually have started using Brave search myself.

Some people need/want chromium, or just prefer Brave. That being said, it's probably fair to recommend it with certain caveats. I don't know why or how it started, but I think a lot of controversy over the Brave browser stems from over exaggerated failings/mistakes, although there are still reasonable criticisms (for me its that its contributing to chromiums near monopoly and its anti-fingerprinting measures fails to fool actual fingerprinters like fingerprintjs). I personally have an unreasonable disliking of Brave. !Bangs are also fully integrated as of earlier this year and I find myself using their 'discussions' results a lot that link to forum discussions. As of right now, 92% of search results served are generated from their index.

Users not interested can ignore it and hide the Brave Rewards icon as well as hide the Brave Wallet icon.īrave search primarily runs off its own index with little reliance on Google or Bing as opposed to Start Page and Duck Duck Go. All you need to do is ignore a one-time notification introducing Brave rewards. It would be good to educate people that this is entirely opt in. There are a few other settings to turn off telemetry and such.īrave Rewards (BAT/crypto earning) is off by default. Additionally, there's a block all cookies settings within Shields, as well as settings to delete website data on close.

The website could list a few tweaks to harden beyond default install such as changing global Shields settings by switching Trackers & ads blocking to aggressive and fingerprint resisting to strict. They're both my daily drivers and enjoy using them. For what it's worth, I support the addition of Brave Browser and Brave search.

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