Article: https://news.itsfoss.com/brave-replaces-google/
“Considering Brave Search is still in the beta phase, it is a bold move.” ~ Ankush Das
I never understood why people would use brave over firefox
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My firefox was horribly slow for some reason and javascript didn’t always work, even though I checked the settings/deactivated add-ons. Apart from that I also don’t like how Mozilla tries to be woke. https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2/mozilla-no-longer-supports-a-free:5
Then ungoogled chromium? https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Brave is still tracking you.
Thanks for the tip.
If you do and you want to install add-ons like ad-block and more you can use this https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store
https://chef-koch.bearblog.dev/brave-browser-hardening-by-chef-koch/#brave-search-faq
To quote myself
- Brave access your IP address upon your visit to determine your location and better serve you ads. While they claim to not store IP addresses, unlike DDG and Startpage, they do read your full IP address which is not private.
- Brave uses Amazon Cloudfront as their CDN, meaning all traffic passes through Amazon servers.
- Brave Search is currently not displaying any ads in their Beta period, but the free version of Brave Search will soon be ad-supported. Brave Search will also offer an ad-free premium version in the near future, it is unclear if you can, similar like with Talk, use your Rewards to unlock the premium version or not.
I contacted Eich and the official Brave account on Twitter but they refused to give me a statement on this, until this is fixed I suggest using Qwant.
and they have not released the code yet, which they said they would
True but to be fair, it is officially still Beta.
that is in fact a kind of good reason not to publish the code yet. However, what if they stay in beta for years? or what if they wait enough so that people just stop caring if it is proprietary or not. I don’t know how many more arguments to make against. What I know is that Brave Search is in a kind of delicate position, and I’m not sure if things will go well around it (brave search).
Brave so far has a good history of open sourcing their stuff, they are pretty transparent. I am not defending them nor do I say everything they do is perfect, but I think we can all agree that they at least try to provide a reliable solution to avoid using Google Search. I do not like to speculate or interpret something more into this.
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I think it will be like google, not private.
I like Presearch too. Their aiming for web3.
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it’s based on chromium, a google project.
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I don’t think it’s accurate to say Google is paying for Brave development, since any money they spend on developing Chromium, they’d be spending anyway because it’s what Chrome is based on. So it’s more like Brave is freeloading on them… but being dependent on a Google browser engine still gives Google power over you, it makes you dependent on them since nobody else has the resources to understand or influence Chromium’s development, so Google can basically implement whatever features they want in Brave by implementing them in Chromium.
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