cloudskaterI'm just trying to search for a website...
Ep1cFac3pa1mI know. I’m trying not to use DuckDuckGo because of their AI support. I was told this was a good search engine to use instead, but it often spits random stuff back at me.
I use brave search, in the settings you can turn off ai answer and anonymous telemetry
gwl [he/him]So you know:
CEO is a anti-vaxxer anti-masker asshole, and incredibly pro-AI and pro-crypto.
Also the browser did at one point “accidentally” have a crypto farm built into it.
I’m so tired of the insistence that you have to agree with everything that the CEO does or says if you use a piece of software… You can turn off the air and crypto in browser settings with a couple clicks. Also I’m talking about the search engine not the browser. I don’t use the browser purely because the Linux builds split mode doesn’t work nearly as clean as Zen, plus i prefer Firefox forks
I use it cause it’s a search engine that gives good results and that can disable ai answers… Until I’m able to get my server PC finished to selfhost searxng
I don’t care what a CEO thinks or says I care what the software does. Is the software good?.. The browser no. It’s complete garbage the search engine. Yeah it’s pretty decent. If the CEO’s garbage ideals bleed into the software like it does in the browser, yeah it’s trash. The search engine like almost every other mainstream search engine has AI answers except unlike a lot of others it lets you turn that off. Has no crypto nonsense, it’s just a search engine. It’s not that deep