Hi everyone,

I’m choosing a default search engine and I’m torn between DuckDuckGo and Brave Search. What matters most to me:

Privacy: what’s actually logged, and can the claims be trusted? Independence from Big Tech: DDG partly relies on Bing, while Brave has its own index. Result quality: relevance for daily, technical and niche queries. Trust: track record, controversies, business model.

Which one do you use daily, and why? Have you noticed a real quality difference? Thanks!

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[+] -22 points 6 hours ago* (12 children)
  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 hours ago (9 children)

    Why this hatred? And where does it come from?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago

    It's a browser made by a company whose main business is advertising.

    At one point they were trying a model where they adblock everything, but show you their ads instead. And then hold the money it made hostage untill the owner of the site you saw it on makes a contract with then to get paid for your ad viewing time.

    But in general - an advertisement company making a browser is suspicious on so many levels...

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  • [–] 11 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

    The company has some questionable businesses, for some the simple fact that its chromium based is enough.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 hours ago (4 children)

    So what the alternative ? Especially for phone i think there are no browser that block ads & tracker. Also you can't use extensions

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