After hearing from another Linux advocate here on this site that Brave replaces ads on websites with their own ads, I think Iāll stick to DuckDuckGo for my search need for now.
Brave has not earned my trust. YMMV.
Iām glad you brought that up, I donāt use Brave but if someone doesnāt do a deep dive I probably will at some point.
I think the time when we could just pick the ārightā browser/search choice has come to an end, itās just a mess of unpleasant trade-offs now. I LOVE duckduckgo.com for example but it can only show me what big tech gives them.
I love it too, but it does make me search, um, longer ( if thatās the right term ) to find what Iām usually looking for.
Duck Duck Go uses Google ads.
I find it ironic that alot of the that people flee Google but donāt seem to mind that.
As well as the analytics tracking in the name of āimprovingā the service. DuckDuckGo ā Spyware Watchdog
What are they āimproving,ā exactly? They use an API to hook into Googleās results. Their entire existence relies on Google.
At least Brave is upfront about what they do.
Disclosure: I use Duckduckgo myself, but by no means feel itās the āprivate alternative to Googleā most see it as - if they stopped using Google ads, I might reconsider that opinion.
I donāt use Brave browser (because itās based on Chromium, I prefer Firefox), but I am going to give their search engine a try.
Brave creating a search engine is pretty interesting, I wonder if they just remove search results and add in their own results for BAT points.
I can confirm that they most certainly do not use Google Ads. Instead they use Bing Ads, better sort of but not much better. 
Ah! Thanks for the correction. Itās been a long while since I saw Duckduckgo without an adblocker; my mistake. They both have similar in appearance ads.
Recommend Michaelās look into Braveās search engine:
