Kagi user here. This search engine is miles in front of all the other ones I've tried. Even has a toggle for searching for stuff within the fediverse!
It's fine. Not a fan of the AI garbage generator at the top. For obscure queries Big G still returns the best results and this will not change any time soon.
Something else that won't change: If you're not paying for a service, then that service will be trying to monetize you in some other way and will therefore have an incentive to spy on you.
You can disable the ai in settings.
I use brave as default search on Firefox, and search in incognito by default. On mobile, brave doesn't save the "disable AI" setting so the slop is there for every search, not to mention slowing down the process.
I really want to switch to brave's search engine from ddg (mainly cuz brave has its own index while ddg uses Bing's). But I have a rlly nice theme on ddg, which makes me feel rlly comfortable. Sure, I can put up user themes/ user scripts whatever for brave search too, but I'm not getting the time to do all that.
Switch to searxng, make your theme, and never get locked in again.
I never tried searx much. I'll do it now :)
Just keep in mind SearX isn't around anymore, as it's been replaced by SearXNG.
Mind sharing what kinda theme you rocking?
Ooo I have a custom one, which is pitch black and has like pink n gray accents n stuff like that. Looks really sexy on my screen
My negative picks are:
i was using Brave search until i discovered qwant. Been usjng it for months now and quite like it
I ditched brave for DuckDuckGo, then DuckDuckGo for Ecosia…
I ditched brave for DuckDuckGo, then DuckDuckGo for Ecosia…
you went back to Bing and Google. Congratulations
DDG uses bing and yandex under the hood, no?
I thought DDG used Bing under the hood.
Can you use the brave search engine from other browsers? (Is it a proxy for any other search engine?)
I'm expecting a negative, but a fella can dream.
Full disclosure: currently using StartPage and reasonably happy. StartPage is a proxy for Google as far as I can tell, although I've seen people say (on Reddit) it refers to Bing too.
No, it is not a proxy for another search index/engine.
Yes, you can add Brave search to your other browsers.
You can. For instance, look up the Brave Search extension on Firefox. Or you can just set the brave.search link to your home page button on any browser.
Oh thank-you. As you have guessed, I haven't done even basic investigation.
I'll try to add it on as a search engine on Firefox to play with.
Thank-you again kind netizen.
I use it regularly because it is so far the best free privacy respecting search. But holy shit the lack of features (can't even do boolean search) is insane
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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