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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Is Brave Search trustworthy? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by MarcRnt@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I heard a lot of bad stuff about Brave and their CEO lately and am now unsure if the search engine is any good? Do they censor stuff? Is any data collected? Can it be considered private?

If you'd not recommend it, what are good alternatives and why? I was a long time duckduckgo user before, so anything similar to it or brave search would be great. I'm not into self hosting.

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[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I moved away from Brave Search when they went 2+ months only offering Google or Bing for their image searches. I can strongly recommend digging into https://search.disroot.org though!

[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is that different from other public searxng instances?

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It could just be me, but I dig disroots outlook. They're a privacy-focused platform ran by volunteers in it for what seems to be all the right reasons. While on the other hand, I can't tell you much about the other public SearXNG instance options.