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How is it that Brave managed to build an indexer and remove dependence on Bing in less than two years but DuckDuckGo hasn't been able to do it in a decade.
The search index is relatively easy, the ad marketplace is hard. DDG is likely hooked on tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in Bing revenue which is a tough habit to kick.
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>don't magically get a better rate when prices are high. That's when you spend your points. Though it depends severely on the brand. Marriott and Hilton are no longer great. But Wyndham and Hyatt are pretty amazing. Starwood, used to be good until Marriott bought them out.
Mariott is pretty good. The single time I stayed in a Hilton was so nasty I’ll never do it again.
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I have two email relays from DDG and have never installed their extension nor even knew they had an extension when I got their relays. (I know now but at the time I didn't) If you download the app on your phone, you can get a relay and then immidiately uninstall the app.
Yes, but you had to install an app. Why? They already have your email. They're forwarding email to you as part of the service. And you probably had to verify your email with them when you started using it. So why should you be required to also install either an app or a browser extension? Doesn't the very act of installing something on your devices increase their technical ability to collect information about you and…
Apple is a regular company and gets points for adding privacy features. DDG? “Nah, F that, they suggested I run code on my device for a brand-new unrelated service. Reprehensible.”
Using Brave Search feels like the Google Search from mid 2000s. Anyone tired of Google should give it a try.
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Yes. If you browse YouTube on mobile via the Brave browser it blocks all YouTube ads. I haven't used the YouTube app in a year...
Unrelated, but the same result is achievable by using Safari and 1Blocker for the people who don’t feel like installing another browser but are tempted by the mobile, ads free YouTube experience on iOS
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search.marginalia.nu consisted of 1 Swedish engineer and 1 server last I heard and still managed to outclass DDG in a number of query types relevant to me. In fact, back when I used DDG I think I fell back to marginalia more often than I fell back to Google, partly because of my dislike for Google and partly because Google doesn't respect my queries - which of course is a contributing reason for my dislike for them.…
> search.marginalia.nu consisted of 1 Swedish engineer and 1 server last I heard and still managed to outclass DDG in a number of query types relevant to me. Still just 1 dinky lil' consumer hardware server in my living room. I think what is limiting the project the most is the hardware. Like I can definitely squeeze more out of it, but I could probably do 100 times more if I had any sort of operational budget. But a…
BTW, thank you very much for offering this service, even though I don't use it often.
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That isn't the only definition. For example Cambridge's definition of censorship ( https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/censo... ) "the action of preventing part or the whole of a book, movie, work of art, document, or other kind of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because it is considered to be offensive or harmful, or because it contains information that someone wishe…
Implicit in that the action is about preventing someone else from making that content public.
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Well the guy who started Brave used to head up Firefox before the employees revolted and demanded he be fired over politics.
"politics" is one way to describe him donating a large sum of money to a bigoted anti-gay cause and losing the trust of his employees.
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I use both. Brave is better for the "chromium only" wonky websites/webapps. But the whole altruistic privacy thing is kind of undercut, at least optics-wise, by all the crypto/gamification upsell present by default. Not good when your supposedly privacy-focused browser requires extensive fiddling in the settings to shut everything off on initial install a-la Windows 11...
It's a little odd to be concerned about privacy focus on a post-Windows 10 os.