Hi everyone,
I’m choosing a default search engine and I’m torn between DuckDuckGo and Brave Search. What matters most to me:
Privacy: what’s actually logged, and can the claims be trusted? Independence from Big Tech: DDG partly relies on Bing, while Brave has its own index. Result quality: relevance for daily, technical and niche queries. Trust: track record, controversies, business model.
Which one do you use daily, and why? Have you noticed a real quality difference? Thanks!
Why this hatred? And where does it come from?
The CEO donated money towards preventing gay marriage in California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
The company has some questionable businesses, for some the simple fact that its chromium based is enough.
So what the alternative ? Especially for phone i think there are no browser that block ads & tracker. Also you can’t use extensions
Canvasblocker prevents fingerprinting - which is nice. https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
I run Fennic with all my normal Firefox extensions, I’m also pretty sure Vanadium blocks most stuftlf but I’m truly not sure.
Ironfox is a privacy focused Firefox fork
Setup a VPN into your LAN and self host searXNG
Ironfox as mentioned and also Titanium browser which is built from Vanadium browser if you aren’t on GrapheneOS. Both block ads and allow extensions, especially the ublock origin extension.
My process is open in IronFox, if it doesn’t work open in vanadiam.
It’s a browser made by a company whose main business is advertising.
At one point they were trying a model where they adblock everything, but show you their ads instead. And then hold the money it made hostage untill the owner of the site you saw it on makes a contract with then to get paid for your ad viewing time.
But in general - an advertisement company making a browser is suspicious on so many levels…
Brendan Eich has some of the wrong ideas