Azazel comments on New to privacy and de-googling, why is DDG recommended over Brave?

New to privacy and de-googling, why is DDG recommended over Brave? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 21 hours ago by AverageDummy@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I am sure there is a good reason for this. I am looking for alternatives to google, and these to be the ones that pop-up most often.

RESOLVED: I used up my 100 searches in kagi pretty quickly, and the experience was really nice. I am quite anti-subscription, so I won't continue using it. I eliminated brave from my search due to the crypto stuff and whatnot. I am now using mojeek, which gave me better results over DDG when searching for niche stuff. Also I like mojeeks interface a lot more.

[–] Azazel@lemmy.ml 38 points 20 hours ago (11 children)

Brave is a crypto bro sham that blocks external ads just to insert their own

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[+] AverageDummy@lemmy.ml [S] -9 points 20 hours ago (10 children)

Meaning? Do they force you to use crypto services? In my time using them I have not encountered ads.

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[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 29 points 20 hours ago

This answer makes this post feel less like a question and more like an ad.

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[–] Duckwingthegoose@sh.itjust.works 8 points 20 hours ago (8 children)

No, and you can turn them off in settings. I use brave browser. No one is perfect, you gotta pick and choose what is acceptable to you or not when getting into the prigsfy/security realm. If you try to find perfection, you won't.

For search, I use kagi. I love it. Worth the couple of bucks a month IMO. Free to try with some amount of searches a month on the free plan so you can just go fuck around and see if it is worth it for you too

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