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

submitted 1 day 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.

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[–] banana_pie@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I'll share my unpopular stance. You can use Brave search from any browser, I use it with Librewolf. This way I get independent web index without any crypto-bro shit. So what is advantage over using DDG? Its that they actually have their own index so its not just a front for some megacorp.

When I was looking around for web search Kagi and Mojeek weren't as good. Maybe that is changed now. What I do know is that Google that I have on my work machine doesn't perform any better than Brave.

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