FarLine99Do you trust Brave company and their products: Browser, Search, VPN?
LinkOpensChest.wavI don’t trust Brave one bit. Its whole approach reeks of a bait-and-switch (think “we won’t share or sell your data” pre-9/11 Google). Its founder is a massive homophobe and crypto-bro, and I have a massive learned distrust of homophobes and crypto-bros.
Moreover, I see no reason to use it when we already have far superior options (Firefox).
NotnotmikeI agree with this distrust. Something about the browser just feels off to me.
I stick with Firefox for browsing, Ecosia for searching, and Mozilla VPN
Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees! I actually forgot about this one. I’ve been planning to try it.
MarxineI use it sometimes and works fine. Not great, but it’s fine for not super specific stuff
StyxiaDoes any search engine work well for super specific stuff these days? I’m finding search is increasingly useless for my niches (high level topics usually being Carpentry, Building Codes, and Astronomy) but their results usually take me to a word vomit blog, something clearly GPT generated or Pinterest spam (DuckDuckGo is terrible for that)
To be fair, more often than not I find stuff by going into “siloed sites” (yt, forums, etc) and searching from there than using a search engine, but it’s still good for stuff that are more common but also more of a hassle trying to remember than just searching it quickly (e.g. “how do I add my user to sudoers again?” kind of stuff)