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Brave Search is planned to replace Google as the default search engine (Brave Browser) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by Blink0Neil@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Article: https://news.itsfoss.com/brave-replaces-google/

"Considering Brave Search is still in the beta phase, it is a bold move." ~ Ankush Das

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[–] CHEFKOCH@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

https://chef-koch.bearblog.dev/brave-browser-hardening-by-chef-koch/#brave-search-faq

To quote myself

Brave access your IP address upon your visit to determine your location and better serve you ads. While they claim to not store IP addresses, unlike DDG and Startpage, they do read your full IP address which is not private.

Brave uses Amazon Cloudfront as their CDN, meaning all traffic passes through Amazon servers.

Brave Search is currently not displaying any ads in their Beta period, but the free version of Brave Search will soon be ad-supported. Brave Search will also offer an ad-free premium version in the near future, it is unclear if you can, similar like with Talk, use your Rewards to unlock the premium version or not.

I contacted Eich and the official Brave account on Twitter but they refused to give me a statement on this, until this is fixed I suggest using Qwant.

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 8 points 3 years ago (1 children)

and they have not released the code yet, which they said they would

[+] CHEFKOCH@lemmy.ml -6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

True but to be fair, it is officially still Beta.

[–] iortega@lemmy.eus 6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

that is in fact a kind of good reason not to publish the code yet. However, what if they stay in beta for years? or what if they wait enough so that people just stop caring if it is proprietary or not. I don't know how many more arguments to make against. What I know is that Brave Search is in a kind of delicate position, and I'm not sure if things will go well around it (brave search).

[–] CHEFKOCH@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Brave so far has a good history of open sourcing their stuff, they are pretty transparent. I am not defending them nor do I say everything they do is perfect, but I think we can all agree that they at least try to provide a reliable solution to avoid using Google Search. I do not like to speculate or interpret something more into this.