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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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i also use brave search a lot, switched after ddg downranked russian search results and the microsoft tracking scandal. but now i am reconsidering. besides searX, what are the best privacy focused search engines atm?
I just recently tried a few different ones because I want to get away from Brave Search. But they either had poor search results or some firm of censoring/altering search results. So I would also love to know if there's some search engine or there that can produce good results without bias i.e. actually just give me the relevant results I am searching for.
If you're willing to pay, Kagi seems to do a decent job.
I tried Kagi, but the results just seem like Google being re-sold, and there’s no way I could get away with anything other than the unlimited plan which is $25/month. Also I’m pretty sure it’s a company of one guy - I’m not sure if this is anything other than a pet project or how they would actually improve the results or become independent of google. Also not sure how I could trust their privacy claims as you literally need to be signed in to search. It’s frustrating though because I want to love their business model, and the presentation is very clean.
If you sign up with a masked address then they only have that. You can likely sign up for more than once if you're needing a new pool of searches, though obviously paying for searches might out you.
I did a bit of comparison... they're at LEAST using Google and Bing, probably a couple more. I tested with searches I'd already done outside of Kagi and it identified most of the relevant results I'd had to ID across multiple engines before. I do think the price is ah, pricey though, and I'd want more info before I used it for sensitive stuff.