I am sure there is a good reason for this. I am looking for alternatives to google, and these to be the ones that pop-up most often.
RESOLVED: I used up my 100 searches in kagi pretty quickly, and the experience was really nice. I am quite anti-subscription, so I won’t continue using it. I eliminated brave from my search due to the crypto stuff and whatnot. I am now using mojeek, which gave me better results over DDG when searching for niche stuff. Also I like mojeeks interface a lot more.
Brave is a crypto bro sham that blocks external ads just to insert their own
Meaning? Do they force you to use crypto services? In my time using them I have not encountered ads.
This answer makes this post feel less like a question and more like an ad.
No, and you can turn them off in settings. I use brave browser. No one is perfect, you gotta pick and choose what is acceptable to you or not when getting into the prigsfy/security realm. If you try to find perfection, you won’t.
For search, I use kagi. I love it. Worth the couple of bucks a month IMO. Free to try with some amount of searches a month on the free plan so you can just go fuck around and see if it is worth it for you too
I haven’t heard of kagi, might try it out. Although it being paid might be a dealbreaker…
Remember if you are not paying with money, you are the product being sold.
Remember if you are paying with money, you are probably still also the product being sold.
This is at least the case for one company, see: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_l-T1N5rE
Sry for the yt link, video isn’t up on Peertube yet (they’ve uploaded before but not always so it may or may not end up there soon)
You could always checkout invidious.io to find the video and link it here as well if you want to.
I switched to Kagi a few years ago and I’m not going back. It’s amazing how it’ll just give you the result with zero ads or SEO shit.
You can even downrank specific sites just for you (fuck Pinterest)
Fair reaction, but dont knock it til you try it