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
I’ll just leave this here: thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
Why I recommend against Brave
If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection. It also offers several quality-of-life features and services, like a VPN and Tor access. I mean, it's even listed on
it seems crazy to me that people still use brave–i’ve been reading nothing but terrible shit about them for years
Same, been there too. Still, it’s easy to miss articles on them, they only pop up once every so often. Same for Proton.
I might be a bit out of the loop, what about proton? I know they have their own AI chatbot, but did I miss anything else about them? AFAIK they are nowhere near Brave in terms of being utter garbage.
No, it’s nowhere near that, still the CEO came out in favor of Trump so I had to ditch them too.
Thanks for the reply and source! I am not a fan of this, but not quite convinced to switch yet. May I ask what you switched to or what alternative email providers you could recommend? From my not very in-depth research, self-hosting an email server seems to be quite a nightmare.
I was weary of self-hosting email myself too, didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole. After some searching, I’ve landed on migadu.com. I just renewed the subscription after the first year, was 19$ a year for the micro plan, which is more than enough for my needs. Not sure why they use dollars though, as they are a Swiss company.
So far no problems, have ~10 of my domains hooked up for email.
The only downside I can spot is it’s bring-your-own-domain, so take that into account.
Appreciate the suggestion, I will look into it. I don’t have my own domain yet, but I guess it is about time…