I used Duck Duck Go for a long time. No more!!!
I just switched to Brave Search. I have been using Brave browser for a while now.
I used Mozilla Firefox for many years until, on their blog, they support deplatforming Trump and other woke ideas.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
I tried Yandex, but they required I accept cookies to use them.
I have used Chromium, Heck the raspberry pi uses it in it's Raspberry pi OS as it's default browser. As far as I am concerned, Any browser that uses the Chromium code base might as well be a 3 letter agency honeypot. The only time that I wouldn't be so concerned would be if only the render engine is used (blink?) and everything else is it's own code. Even then I am suspect of anything that google has their hands in. I'd much rather just use Gecko, Goanna, or any other renderer that Google doesn't have a hand in. Heck if I could effectively (key word there) browse and interact with sites like this in a command line, I would. (yes I have tried command line browsers... they don't interact very well)
I understand how open source works. You can shill Brave all you want, but I still refuse to use it on the grounds of the Chromium code in it. It's too heavily advertised as the "great alternative" and that alone makes me suspicious of it.
I may be confused, but if there is any relationship between Chromium and Google's Chrome, there could be problems down the road. I had Chrome show up on my browser at one point. I gave it a try and found that it was user-hostile, so I decided it wasn't for me. But starting thereafter, when I would open up a URL from an e-mail, it would open up in Chrome. And, generally, it was displaying what I would call "imperialistic" behavior. It wanted to insert itself in everything. I finally had to take it down to the nerd shop to have it exorcised out of my machine. Had it simply stayed put on the shelf, I could have kept it in reserve. But it wanted to Move My Cheese, and that's a no-no.
Chromium can be very similar in it's bad behaviors in comparison to Google's Chrome. That behavior depends on the device you are using it on. Android, all the time. PC (Linux, Windows or otherwise) depends if you let it. but it does integrate way to much into the system on a windows PC for my liking.
As far as I am concerned, any browser that uses Chromium code is no better than using what the 3 letter agencies want you to use.
Brave Browser has been a great download, deleted DDG last night.
No more Duck Duck Go for me.
I now have Brave. I will have a look at Yandex.
Qwant
Sigh.
https://greatawakening.win/p/142BF3cNKW/breaking-qwant-joins-duckduckgo-/c/
I was actually checking it out the other day per your suggestion.
Hopefully search engines Brave (which I'm using now) and Yandex are not going to pull this censorship $hit.
I used Duck Duck Go for a long time. No more!!! I just switched to Brave Search. I have been using Brave browser for a while now. I used Mozilla Firefox for many years until, on their blog, they support deplatforming Trump and other woke ideas. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/ I tried Yandex, but they required I accept cookies to use them.
Waterfox has been a good fork for me. https://www.waterfox.net/blog
It's a shame that Brave uses Chromium code.
I have used Chromium, Heck the raspberry pi uses it in it's Raspberry pi OS as it's default browser. As far as I am concerned, Any browser that uses the Chromium code base might as well be a 3 letter agency honeypot. The only time that I wouldn't be so concerned would be if only the render engine is used (blink?) and everything else is it's own code. Even then I am suspect of anything that google has their hands in. I'd much rather just use Gecko, Goanna, or any other renderer that Google doesn't have a hand in. Heck if I could effectively (key word there) browse and interact with sites like this in a command line, I would. (yes I have tried command line browsers... they don't interact very well)
I understand how open source works. You can shill Brave all you want, but I still refuse to use it on the grounds of the Chromium code in it. It's too heavily advertised as the "great alternative" and that alone makes me suspicious of it.
I may be confused, but if there is any relationship between Chromium and Google's Chrome, there could be problems down the road. I had Chrome show up on my browser at one point. I gave it a try and found that it was user-hostile, so I decided it wasn't for me. But starting thereafter, when I would open up a URL from an e-mail, it would open up in Chrome. And, generally, it was displaying what I would call "imperialistic" behavior. It wanted to insert itself in everything. I finally had to take it down to the nerd shop to have it exorcised out of my machine. Had it simply stayed put on the shelf, I could have kept it in reserve. But it wanted to Move My Cheese, and that's a no-no.
Chromium can be very similar in it's bad behaviors in comparison to Google's Chrome. That behavior depends on the device you are using it on. Android, all the time. PC (Linux, Windows or otherwise) depends if you let it. but it does integrate way to much into the system on a windows PC for my liking.
As far as I am concerned, any browser that uses Chromium code is no better than using what the 3 letter agencies want you to use.