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.

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I trust more the DDG search ingini, brave kinda sucks ass.

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At the end I switched back to DDG.

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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

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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.

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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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Yes, mate. Same for me. DDG has been around for longer.

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“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.

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And the Duck also has a sketchy CEO

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It’s worth noting that DDG did update their policy after the blowback.

Blog post reaction
Current setup summarized

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Now I remember why I started using DDG, they are as transparent as they can be as a search engine. Thanks for sharing these useful links.

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Brave is an ad company. Don’t use Brave.

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For the record, I use SearXNG with Librewolf

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I am so curious about LibreWolf. I am gonna try it soon on my daily laptop (Linux of course 😂).

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I’ve been using it for a long time, I haven’t run into any issues with it.

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