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0 pointsNayamAmarshe1y ago0 comments

I've been using Brave Search for years and it's fantastic. I haven't used Google since and it supports Bangs! like DDG. It's free so you can give it a try.

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stanislavb1y ago

I still use Google; however, Brave Search has been my default and it is good in most cases. Better than Bing (and DDG).

mattl1y ago

Did Brave give up on their cryptocurrency stuff?

landolix1y ago

It's a decent alternative to what Mozilla was doing to earn money.

NayamAmarsheOP1y ago

They've kinda realized that it's not going anywhere. So now they're focusing on products that can earn them revenue. Like AI features and search ads.

donw1y ago

Unsure, but I don’t see anything related to it these days

Fire-Dragon-DoL1y ago

How to make sure Brave (the browser) gets some money if I'm not using their search engine? (I use Kagi)

amusingimpala751y ago

I really liked Brave Search but unfortunately it started giving me captchas on every search after 11 pm Pacific or so for some (unknown) reason. They’re not even image captchas, you just click the button and wait 15-20 seconds which is pretty inconvenient.

pythux1y ago

Hi, Brave engineer here,

May I ask when you switched away from Brave Search? We've been doing work to reduce the amount of captchas a few months ago and we stopped getting feedback about this issue at that point. If it's still happening, it's something we will look into again.

Also, are you a user of ProtonVPN by any chance?

Thanks for your help,

jatotebs1y ago

Excellent browser. One issue with it though, when I close the browser I am expecting my history to be deleted as I set it up that way, but it turns out I have to manually close every tab before closing the browser for it to actually delete the history and that seems like a mistake. Otherwise, great browser. Though you should rip out all the Google stuff from it, literally every single thing that connects or touches that pos company.

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NayamAmarsheOP1y ago

Hi pythux, off-topic question but do engineers directly read the feedback or is it filtered for you by someone else?

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HKH21y ago

It's not good for images, unfortunately. Bing is way better for images.

NayamAmarsheOP1y ago

Yes, for images I just do !gi

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