I think as the community grows, more search engines will start including us!
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Fuck Brave and fucks its owner Brendan Eich.
Don’t promote that despicable company in any way.
While I agree, but i tried Brave Search for a few weeks, and it seemed pretty good.
I wouldnt use Brave Browser, because Vivaldi is there (if you need Chromium.) But for a search engine which is free? DuckDuckGo maybe?
P.S. Kagi search is pretty good if you are willing to pay.
Why what’s up with them? Asking cuz I don’t know.
Tl;dr Brave’s ceo (founder?) has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.
Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.
And it is apparently collecting money for YouTubers and not paying them (I did not fully read that article myself)
The gay marriage thing is not a good look now, but it’s worth noting that he’s not trying to abolish it today.
And the referral link things is also old and it was walked back after it was discovered.
Choose your tools based on your needs because everyone will have some politics you don’t like.
He may not be trying to abolish it, but he also, to my knowledge has not apologized, or done anything to show he has changed.
As far as I know, you are correct. My main browser is Librewolf and search engine is DDG. But I still use Brave when I rarely need a chromium browser or alternate search engine and he gains nothing from that.
As a piece of software, nothing. It’s an open source browser, and has an added bonus of having many privacy settings on by default. Not even firefox can say the same, it comes with telemetry, pocket and whatnot out of the box.
But there are some fair criticisms about the company and its administration. For example, there was an incident years ago when you signed on a crypto exchange, it would swap the sign on link for their own referral link. They claimed this was an error and quickly patched it, but I don’t buy it.
You’ll quickly notice that a lot of people on lemmy passionately hate brave. So expect a strong bias and, as a result, truths but overblown, half truths and misinformation. Don’t ignore what they say but double check them.
Read the links of the comment you are replying to.
that’s not reasonable. provide an argument with supporting links, not links without an argument
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Kagi does it already.
!Lemmy [stuff]
Gets you stuff from all over Lemmy
yeah but its, like, 5 bucks a month /:
That’s why all the top results on every search are actual results, instead of a bunch of ads.
Totally worth it.I’m struggling with kagi because I do notike my searches tied to an account/profile (a paid CC and name and address etc.)
I like kagi but this is making me want to cancel my membership. Thoughts?
They don’t keep a search history. Your searches aren’t tied to anything, because they aren’t even saved. They don’t have any reason to save them since they aren’t selling any targeted ads.
This was my understanding as well. It’s the point of paying. However , it is just “trust me bro” right? It’s not like they’ve been audited for not storing user data? Even just basic logging too could hold user info. Honestly no idea with paid search engines, I know so little.
Even an audit is really just someone else saying “trust me bro”. You have some level of trust.
What incentive would they have to betray your trust?
SearXNG has a the same functionality as well for free:
You can self-host it or use one of the publicly available instances.
That’s great! I had no idea you could specifically search for lemmy content in search engines (albeit niche).
I wasn’t able to find an option to use Lemmy search an several public instances. Do you know an instance that supports this?
I am self hosting my version so that is where my screenshot came from.
If I were looking for a public instance to use that has this functionality, I’d look to some of the European hosts as they are less likely to use Reddit as their de facto platform relative to Americans
Does self-hosting with those extensions require a lot of system resources?
Not in my experience. I am running a docker container and it is one of +10 containers running on my server which is basically a laptop from a few years ago. So far no issues.
This is exactly what comes to mind when some fedi people want to block all the search engines.
Good answers from real people are what drove everyone to start appending “Reddit” to the end of searches. The rest of the results are SEO trash.
I’d like to see a lot of that traffic move to lemmy and other fedi stuff and I think letting indexers do their thing is positive.
why not use vivaldi if you have to use a chromium-based browser
It’s firefox (well, librewolf) + vivaldi is closed-source.
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Why Vivaldi?
Because it’s fucking awesome. Here’s why I used* to use it:
- Built in email client
- Built in RSS reader.
- Themes and customisable UI (vertical tabs, bottom tags, tab previews, tab stacking)
- Built in ad blocker
- Sidebar with Mastodon, RSS, mail, translate, etc
*I use Floorp now cos I wanna support Mozilla/Firefox by upping the browser share numbers but Vivaldi is the best Chromium-based browser by far.
And people bash brave for being bloated.
