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Is Brave Search trustworthy?

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I heard a lot of bad stuff about Brave and their CEO lately and am now unsure if the search engine is any good? Do they censor stuff? Is any data collected? Can it be considered private?

If you’d not recommend it, what are good alternatives and why? I was a long time duckduckgo user before, so anything similar to it or brave search would be great. I’m not into self hosting.

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darcy@sh.itjust.works
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no search engine is 100% trustworthy, unless self hosted (even then im not sure)…

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YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
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Hey does anyone know if Ungoogled Chromium has WEI implemented ?

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trippingonthewire@lemmy.ml
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Brave is alright for normies and maybe as a secondary browser.

I’d try a SearX instance or SearX.be and use FireFox or Librewolf as a browser, at least as a primary way to look things up.

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Sume@reddthat.com
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Good search engine with no ads.

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Zerush@lemmy.ml
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I use a lot of search engines, none of these are Google, Bing or Brave. I use mainly Andisearch as primary search and Mojeek as second (both are between the most privacy protecting search engines out there). Apart some others (Qwant, DDG, Startpage, MetaGer, and some specific ones for news, images, resources, Url Checks, etc. and interns from social networks)

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