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.

Using privacy and Brave in the same sentence is a quite a leap.

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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.

I use Brave Search and Firefox. But sometimes i have to use Chromium for compatibility issues although it is so rare.

DDG uses bing and they filter results based on their biased opinion. Just give me results let me care about the rest! Brave has a limited index, plus not a huge fan of their crypto scam. StartPage gets results from Google and seems better than the above two. But Google itself filters results so not great. tbh, to get unfiltered great results try Yandex, they do have good index and seem no or less filtering. It would be great if SearX would provide a wrapper around Yandex, but AFAIK Yandex blocks bots and non-human interactions and it is hard to add SearX support. Kagi - I don’t want an extra subscription.

For now, I think SearX/Whooper instances are good enough

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.

“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.

I use all of them, at once, with searx.

Same here, I mostly use brave search with occasional !ecos. Although, both companies have made questionable stuff in their browsers (ddg – not blocking m$ trackers, brave – similar stuff with trackers, don’t remember which, plus the whole affiliate link debacle).

I gave brave search 2 goes over some years apart. everytime I get a captcha I said f u brave. duckduck not a single captcha.

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.

I’m using presearch.com these days and I’m rather pleased with that

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