Brave Is Launching a Privacy-Focused Search Engine to Compete with Google...
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I've been using their browser lately and it's pretty damn tight.
Agreed, it’s my favorite at the moment. Check out these alternatives as well (especially Degoogled Chromium):
Browsers (Desktop)
Browsers (Mobile)
Brave lost my support when they added the Brave Today news feed feature and defaulted all the fucking propaganda outlets on.
Nice list, huge fan of Dissenter so far. Basically Brave with even more of an emphasis on privacy.
I was a fan of Dissenter as well until another tech pede pointed out that it’s not actively being patched for security. Personally I just killed the Brave Today bullshit, but I’d go Degoogled Chromium if I didn’t want to deal with them at all.
Oh, wonderful. I didn't realize they weren't bringing in patches from Brave. (sigh)
If it became actively maintained again I do believe it would be superior. Reaching out to the current repo manager is on my to do list for this coming week. More alternatives, even more so if they’re forking a solid code base, is rarely a bad thing.
Nah thats just a front. As of now they still don't track ya. Thats what counts.
You have to look at the entire picture and scrutinize everything. You must think that shit is just an oversight but I think it's them virtue signaling to say "Please don't hate us, Silicon Valley leftists!" For fuck's sake, they have Vice, Buzzfeed and BBC on by default.
Just once I'd like to see one of these orgs recommend Breitbart on their list of defaults. Just fucking once. But you know why: the lefties would boycott if they saw that.
Well, we need to fight, too. We need to move the Overton window back. There's nothing fringe about Breitbart.
I agree. I still read breitbart but it hasn't been the same since Bannon. Who was the last writer to shake the tree Mylo? Feminism is cancer!! He was right then and still now!!
I use Naked Browser Pro for Android. It weighs in about 530kb, doesn't track, is customizable and about as fast as it gets on mobile.
Added to the list. I’ll take a look in the next couple days. I am way more open to trusting a 530KB APK than one of the 500MB “wtf is in this file” bloatfests. Thanks for the recommendation!
Yeah, the dev wrote it because he got sick and tired of all this tracking and mystery bloatware stuff. He hasn't updated in quite some time, but I don't think it's abandoned. You can write up a nice home page that supports html and java and it'll read the file off your local storage. Has dark mode, history toggle, supports bookmarklets, immersion mode, etc.. It's not for everybody, but i really love it.
I had a professor who only used a black and white text browser to limit dopamine triggers online. This was twenty years ago. Sometimes people just have the right preferences before it’s popular.
Still has a huge tabbing bug thry haven't fixed.
Should partner up with DDG
I like Duck Duck Go because of the results...and the ducks, but they've also been known to donate to some pretty leftist organizations. Does that matter?
I'm tooling around with Qwant. The results aren't as good to some extent, not sure I like it, but I don't dislike it. I'm going to play with Startpage next.
If you look at the leftist organizations that DDG donated to it's just a couple or three orgs that normies would consider free speech or privacy orgs. I doubt most of them were politically aware enough to realize those orgs were Marxist orgs. It looks like they stopped donating to political orgs. They only did it for a couple of years.
It's not a deal-breaker for me, for that reason. Just thought it should be mentioned. It did give me the impetus to try some alternatives.
I find DDG to be better than some of the alternatives ... subjective though, and I should have clarified.
Nah, I like more competition. Especially since Brave has said that they’re open to licensing out their index to other search engines as a component of their business model. DDG still sells anonymizes user data and is beholden to Google in the same way Mozilla/Firefox are or have been.
Some alternatives that already exist:
Search Engines
Great list. Thanks.
Burn Google down
Is there a non Google option for getting directions?
Zen Driving.
"We can't stop honey"
Guy washing windshields ...
Mapping
To be honest though, Google invested very heavily in actually adding value to Google Maps as it’s what many of their other services are dependent on primarily. You’re going to be hard pressed to find a more granular curated experience than Google Maps. OpenStreetMaps is going to be the closest as it has the big bois like Facebook contributing to it because they didn’t want to pay to license the Google IP.
Honeypot?
Possibly, I’d just say spread searches out across engines. Throw in a couple on Baidu and Yandex to really keep the friendly ghosts guessing even if there is a dragnet meta data gathering program.
Cant wait. Been using brave for years now.
I use Brave and invested heavily in BAT (most underrated crypto). The future of advertising and the internet search engines is Brave.
I’m very very bearish on BTC because of how the protocol has been demonstrably crippled over the last ten years by core developers. I’m very very very bullish on ETH and derivatives once the gas issues are resolved. MetaMask and Uniswap are the future.
Check out presearch if you haven’t already. I think you’ll like both their business model and their ethics. You can also run a node in the network and be rewarded. I wish it was getting the amount of press that this Brave acquisition is getting.
Let's take down these Big Tech companies so they lose everything they worked so hard for.