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recommended search engine? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by 8bitretro@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I've seen a lot of discourse over which browsers we use and I myself have made the switch from brave to firefox. I still use brave as my search engine though, so... which do yall recommend? Is brave's engine necessarily bad to use? I personally like its ui/theme.

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[โ€“] raubarno@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Browser: Firefox because I can download its source code, use it, inspect, modify and share. All of these 4 freedoms make Firefox free, as in freedom. ~~Brave is non-free (closed source and not contributing to software freedom)~~.

I use Qwant (unfortunately, it only works in the EU) and site-local search (Wikipedia, ArchWiki, etc.)

All web search engines are crap, honestly. Maybe Kagi makes better, idk.

EDIT: Brave is free, apparently.

[โ€“] coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Qwant works just fine in the US

[โ€“] Cnor_Siwas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you please elaborate why Brave isn't open source? The source code is on github and there's even an Brave-Git package in the AUR.