Brave Search

[Shadowvaporwarez]

I'd made a post on/r/PrivacyGuide about Brave Search. - but was taken down by the mods. My bad, I really should have read the rules properly!

I realise that the narrative around Brave, their software and motivations is complex but I wanted to put forward a discussion about the merits and pitfalls of Brave Search.

It's in it's infancy currently but I feel the current search engine landscape is a bit sparse - Qwant was delisted and I personally feel that other offerings such as Searx are too steep a compromise for a lot of threat models.

My worry is that it ends up pushing people who have just started their journey to reclaiming their privacy back into the arms of Google/Microsoft etc because the compromises that they'd need to make do not work with their threat model.

In my estimation the only current 'accessible' search engine is DDG, and I wonder if we should be having a discussion as to trying to establish another recommendation?

[TommyTran732]

DDG and StartPage are pretty accessible IMO.

That said, Brave browser is being considered as a recommendation right now. If Brave search is gonna be recommend at all, it will come after the Brave browser decision

[eylenburg]

I would also advocate for adding Brave Search and I would see as a priority over looking at the Brave Browser.

My reasoning is that DuckDuckGo and Startpage are just giving you Bing/Yandex and Google results, respectively. Brave Search on the other hand is using its own index for most queries, sometimes supported by Bing. It shows you how much of the results are independent, in my case it's about 95%.

On the hand, in browsers, Brave is based on Blink while Firefox is an independent product which should be preferred over Brave, although I understand the appeal that Brave has for some (e.g. blocks ads by default, strongest privacy of all Chromium browsers, Firefox on iOS is not great)

[ph00lt0]

Duplicate of https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/214

[ghost]

With Brave Browser being added in #1233, I think this allows for some discussion around Brave Search.

As far as privacy is concerned, I see little concern in comparison to the preexisting recommendations. The privacy policy is clear on what's collected and for what purpose, with the option present to disable much of the aggregated metrics. At the end of the day, you still have to trust the company to respect their policy.

The biggest advantage it has is definitely the quality and relevancy of its results.

[ph00lt0]

Orignal post should be used for that discussion not a duplicate