Mastodon VS Brave Search

Mastodon Reviews

Brave Search Reviews

1. Notgiv Inmaname

   | Random guy at Hypothetical Inexistent Organization of Proffesional Dumbasses | over 2 years ago
   Brave Search is way better than other search engines.

   In contrast to other "private" search engines (except for Presearch and SearX), it doesn't have trackers, or not nearly as many. This information can be verified by installing uBlock Origin and ClearURLs, which detect 0 and 2 trackers respectively, against for example DuckDuckGo's nearly 10 and 19. Other alternatives are SearX (No trackers AT ALL, still kinda user-friendly) and Presearch (A bit easier to use but a tiny bit worse for privacy, it has 1 more tracking element).

   🏁 Competitors: DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, StartPage, Presearch, Searx, Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, Ask.com, Qwant

   👍 Pros:    Good search results|Not too many trackers|Not buggy|Easy to use

   👎 Cons:    Has 2 tracking url elements

Mastodon mentions (611)

• Attempt to bring a cinematic experience in 256 bytes (WASM)

  Just a follow up to all downvoters: developers care, and are working on improving performance, take a look at one of hopefully many to come, examples - https://mastodon.social/@tdp_org/112440017216320486. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in protest against OpenAI

  Here's a cached copy of the linked post on a server with more capacity: https://mastodon.social/@ben@m.benui.ca/112396505994216742. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• Apple Introduces M4 Chip

  Today’s Xcode 15.4 RC suggests that “Donan” is the M4 core codename, and that it may support ARM’s SME instructions. https://mastodon.social/@bshanks/112401605018159567. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Apple Introduces M4 Chip

  "The M4 is so fast, it'll probably finish your Final Cut export before you accidentally switch apps and remember that that cancels the export entirely. That's the amazing power performance lead that Apple Silicon provides." #AppleEvent https://mastodon.social/@tolmasky/112400245162436195. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• TIL: You can open man or info pages in Firefox by man:<page> or info:<page>

  Addendum from https://mastodon.social/@mofosyne/112385581085525369 Turns out that it's because KHelpCenter in some linux distros hooks to these uris. So typing this uri would autoopen these man entries in KHelpCenter. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

Brave Search mentions (328)

• DuckDuckGo AI Chat

  Pretty cool! I use Brave Search (https://search.brave.com) and it too got AI results a few months ago. They're quite helpful! - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago

• Are my searches tracked by google if I us google seach in Brave?

  Best way to protect yourself from that is to use other search engines that do not track you (I really like Brave Search, but if you want Google results without tracking try Startpage). Source: 5 months ago

• Google Pays $21B for Search Monopoly: How "Free" Tech Markets Repress

  Instead of DuckDuckGo and Ecosia whose use Bing Search, they should share real alternative like https://kagi.com/ or https://search.brave.com. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: Are there valid Google Search alternatives?

  No need to pay for Kagi imo https://search.brave.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Tell HN: DuckDuckGo Search Results have jumped the shark

  It's been a while. https://search.brave.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago