Brave creating it's own search engine

After hearing from another Linux advocate here on this site that Brave replaces ads on websites with their own ads, I think I’ll stick to DuckDuckGo for my search need for now.

Brave has not earned my trust. YMMV.

I’m glad you brought that up, I don’t use Brave but if someone doesn’t do a deep dive I probably will at some point.

I think the time when we could just pick the ā€œrightā€ browser/search choice has come to an end, it’s 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.

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I love it too, but it does make me search, um, longer ( if that’s the right term ) to find what I’m usually looking for.

Duck Duck Go uses Google ads.

I find it ironic that alot of the that people flee Google but don’t seem to mind that.

As well as the analytics tracking in the name of ā€œimprovingā€ the service. DuckDuckGo — Spyware Watchdog

What are they ā€˜improving,’ exactly? They use an API to hook into Google’s 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 it’s the ā€˜private alternative to Google’ most see it as - if they stopped using Google ads, I might reconsider that opinion.

I don’t use Brave browser (because it’s based on Chromium, I prefer Firefox), but I am going to give their search engine a try.

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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. :sunglasses:

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Ah! Thanks for the correction. It’s been a long while since I saw Duckduckgo without an adblocker; my mistake. They both have similar in appearance ads.

Recommend Michael’s look into Brave’s search engine:

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