Submitted 1 year ago by muaveri@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
iirc Brave has a terrible policy Not good More like … a honeypot
At least Ecosia supposedly plants lots of trees (which we desperately need)
We need like a quadrillion NET more trees than we have right now
it’s not just carbon sinks it’s also water vapor (evapotranspiration) it either forms clouds that rain (if lots of trees) or it just makes the atmosphere hotter
the internet has a big physical footprint
i don’t think tokens help.
They have a github where you can see all the changes that are being made. github.com/privacyguides/…/releases
Oh 100%. Privacy guides is great. No question about them. I was referring to the original posters domain in the original message. That domain just didn’t have a reputation, kind of looked like spam. So that’s why I was trying to give them feedback
Brave reminds me of early Google. I’m old enough to remember using Google because it was a privacy-respecting service. I’m just waiting for Brave to sell its users out, because if there’s one thing its CEO is good at, it’s that. He’s a money-hungry rat.
Qwant boldly claims not to know anything about you, but will use location data from your IP to personalize search results. I find that extremely untrustworthy, especially because they literally say “the search engine that doesn’t know anything about you” on their homepage, which is an obvious lie.
I use Startpage, but it’s worth noting that it is primarily owned by System1, which is an advertising agency. I use them, but I’m always a bit hesitant to recommend them. They’re another one that seems like it could be a bait-and-switch, in the long run.
I’m not sure which features SearXNG people might think are missing since the public instances I use are highly customizable, even compared to mainline search engines like Google or Bing. If anything, it might feel overwhelming to users who aren’t used to having so much control over their search engine. I had a weird experience with a SearXNG instance recently where I searched “al.ost,” but it kept insisting I meant “almost” and persisted in providing results for “almost,” no matter what syntax I tried. This was extremely troubling to me and leads me to question whether I will continue to use it going forward. I’m looking for a search engine that only provides results based on the actual terms I enter. I’m so done with sites that try to do the thinking for me.
Just my two cents on a few of these. Obviously, much of this is highly opinionated on my part.
Kagi
You pay for it, but it’s really good and private. I find it gives me better results than even google. And muuuuch better results than ddg,ecosia, or any of the other free degoogled ones.
I’ve heard good things about it, but many people can’t afford yet another subscription fee, especially those of us who would need the top-tier plan since we regularly do far more than 1k searches per month
Is searx/searxng the only open source search engine available out there?
I think MetaGer is also open source, but I’ve never used it
Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
Brave is sketch as fuck and it’s ceo is a creep.