DDG has a history of breaching privacy: https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blo...
Meanwhile Brave Search or Mojeek provide more privacy, being independent at the same time.
> Brave Search or Mojeek provide more privacy
Do they? Or have they just not had that "history" yet? I don't see anything fundamentally different in Brave that protects your and my privacy better than on DDG. I don't know Mojeek enough.
Brave explicitly claims not to.[1] Brave also does not rely on Bing for results.
[1] https://search.brave.com/help/privacy-policy
Edit: mojeek claims the same.[2]
Last time i checked, Brave was insisting on convinving me to use certain cryptocurrency platforms and it was more intrusive with it than typical web ads, which seemed really twisted, as the same Brave claimed to give ad-free experience.
Are they still doing that?
Re:DuckDuckGo Down
by NayamAmarshe on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:07PM
(#40457192)
They don't. The cryptocurrency options are all disabled by default and are opt-in.
Re:DuckDuckGo Down
by somenameforme on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:30PM
(#40457510)
It literally never did that. There's some crypto wallet button that you get in the address bar that you can disable with a right click, and that's pretty much the extent of it. All crypto and other related functionality is completely opt-in.
Re:DuckDuckGo Down
by decide1000 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @02:49PM
(#40458396)
Yes, those ads are still part of Brave.
Re:DuckDuckGo Down
by arrowsmith on Friday May 24, 2024 @07:55AM
(#40465226)
What ads? I'm writing this on Brave and I've never seen any ads. Are we talking about the same browser?
I was talking about Brave Search (https://search.brave.com), not Brave browser. Seaech doesn't promote crypto.
Re:DuckDuckGo Down
by arrowsmith on Friday May 24, 2024 @07:54AM
(#40465220)
No, they're not. I've been using Brave almost since its inception and I still have no idea what its cryptocurrency features are. Nor have I ever seen an intrusive ad from Brave, or anywhere else since Brave has an ad blocker built in.
Why does this same conversation happen every time Brave is mentioned on HN? Have any of the people complaining about Brave's crypto-whatever "problem" ever actually used it?
That only concern the browser not the search engine ?
HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490515
Cause Brave CEO, Brendan Eich, is such a swell guy.
Re:DuckDuckGo Down
by red_admiral on Friday May 24, 2024 @05:47AM
(#40464533)
That is true, but it's referring to their android browser app not their search engine, if I've read correctly.
Right?