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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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[–] Spite_By_Design_LLC@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

So the search engine I use now is searXNG

Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark.

Heh, just making a silly joke. As a home labber, I imagine you're well across YaCy, so am just name dropping it for the newbies. Yacy, Hister etc etc.

Answering the OP -

Personally, I find myself either going directly to the sites I want, using RSS feeds or (gasp!) using my local LLM agents with MCP adapters, with something like Exa to fetch the info I want (or directly via PubMed etc).

(these are raw CLI; I need to wire this up to XMPP very soon so I have something that's a little less "Haxor" for the rest of the family to use)

More and more, I am mirroring the stuff I need offline, so that I can point my pet clankers at my local files, Kiwix archives, Recoll etc and then just one-click them open.