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Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

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Re: Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

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Post by DavideNL »

input_sh wrote: post #133
devwastaken wrote: post #6

This reminds me to uninstall brave. Rebranded chromium with crypto shilling and now "premium search"? They didn't even test DNS with their tor feature, causing identity leaks. Can we not just have the chromium builds degoogled and include the codecs and DRM libs? Woolyss builds do all that, but there's no fancy single download installer+auto updater. We need just "chromium".

> Can we not just have the chromium builds degoogled You mean like this? https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

If i remember correctly, i read in their docs that the builds can be submitted by anyone. Not sure how secure that is…

Re: Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

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Post by mlk »

pmurt7 wrote: post #285

By the way, DuckDuckGo is no better than Google. DuckDuckGo said no. But when I reapplied as a black lesbian who can’t speak English, they wanted me: https://lulz.com/community/thread/social-experiment-duckduck...

just apply as a FtM trans

Re: Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

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Post by vurpo »

soco wrote: post #157
occamrazor wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some years ago Google had the option to remove a website from search results. After a few months they discontinued. It would be nice to know why, if the user adoption was too low, the computational cost too high, or the user experience too bad because users inadvertently removed good results.

I can imagine it was also a handy tool to DoS a site.

It was a tool to remove a site from your own results. If you searched and saw a site you didn't like, you could click to no longer get the results from that site. It wouldn't affect what anyone else saw anywhere.

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Post by kkoncevicius »

Kiro wrote: post #283
_fnhr wrote: post #257

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Google, when used with double quotes and exact title, finds aggregator sites, but I was simulating looking for the original: https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2020/07/08/politics-i... Here is one more, search: Ten Elements of the False COVID Narrative Google: nowhere Brave: first result And it's not like Google just didn't index the site, it works for topics that are "less controversial", search: Universal Clock…

None of your examples do what you say for me. I see everything on Google including your comments here.

Interesting, let me share two screenshots of what I see:

1. http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/data/google_example1.png

2. http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/data/google_example2.png

Re: Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

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Post by leoxv »

Just tried it out. Looks nice (except for that unremovable crypto button on the toolbar), but I need SpeechSynthesis (TTS) support. Will stay with FF and use MS Edge for its excellent TTS.

The search engine is pretty weak judging from my initial queries.

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Post by boppo1 »

skinkestek wrote: post #213
schleck8 wrote: post #196

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Can someone fill me in?

Hostility towards users asking questions as seen in the tabstrip API bug. (A really simple thing that I fix on a weekly basis in 4 minutes every time I restart Firefox but somehow next to impossible for Mozilla. Although I should admit they are making it harder and harder for me as well.) Pushing Pocket (which is nice and could have become a nice source of income from users like me who wants to support the browser) i…

What is "the mission"? Maybe it is important.

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Post by StevePerkins »

zeronine wrote: post #21
devwastaken wrote: post #6

This reminds me to uninstall brave. Rebranded chromium with crypto shilling and now "premium search"? They didn't even test DNS with their tor feature, causing identity leaks. Can we not just have the chromium builds degoogled and include the codecs and DRM libs? Woolyss builds do all that, but there's no fancy single download installer+auto updater. We need just "chromium".

brave shilling is concerningly effective

The only concerning thing here is the growing belief that one's consumer choices are their "identity", and alternate choices are an attack on that identity. Moreover, that alternative choices must be feigned in bad faith, part of a conspiracy, "fake news", etc.

What happened to you, Internet? Politics is one thing, but this is starting to bleed over into "liking Apple", or "hating Apple", or any similar camp one finds themselves in with a web browser or programming language or other piece of tech. "People who feel differently from me must be faking it as part of a plot." What the hell?

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Post by tapland »

potamic wrote: post #179
lobocinza wrote: post #108

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There's a Chromium extension, uBlacklist, that does something similar. You can blacklist sites from search results and also whitelist so those are highlighted.

Excellent! I was looking for precisely this. Next, I would also very much like to weed out image/video/map suggestions, related searches, people also ask and page snippets. The cognitive overload from navigating these giant banners and getting to my search results is getting worse by the day. But, how stable is this? I tried so hard doing this with greasemonkey. But google's DOM is ridiculously obfuscated and kept br…

https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist It's on Firefox as well as Chrome, and apple stuff.

It's like a gift from god that allows me to block pinterest image results. Not had any issues with it what so ever.

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Post by yissp »

arp242 wrote: post #124
rankun wrote: post #111

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I hear this criticism a lot and I always wonder whether that has something to do with either me not having a Google account and thus using the unpersonalized search, or simply with what I search for, but Google is almost always giving me worse results that DDG or, for that matter, any of the smaller competitors. Google seems to be filled with sponsored results that are only superficially relevant, and from page 2 onw…

I'm never logged in to Google, and don't even store cookies by default (although that may or may not be enough to prevent all tracking/personalisation, it's more than "the average" user and does seem to keep the worst out, not that personalisation is necessarily bad; the singular reason I have an account is because I actually like YouTube personalisation – without it I just get idiotic nonsense on the frontpage and n…

Meanwhile I was trying to find a romantic partner in Cambodia and Google kept giving me useless calendar-related results.

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Post by bradleyankrom »

amelius wrote: post #252
eloisius wrote: post #7

I’ve been using Brave search for several months now. I switched the day that it was announced. The quality is fairly good, but I’m having troubling telling whether it’s just my own halo effect or if the initial quality that experienced has started to slip a little as it indexes more widely or something. At first I was impressed with how little spam ended up in top results, but lately exact queries for Python function…

> I really wish a search engine would empower me to provide a URL ban list that gets applied server-side instead of filtering on the front end (if anything). The irony is that Google wants all our information "to improve our user experience", except they don't want our ban lists.

I can’t remember if it was a former feature of Google search or a Chrome extension, but that capability used to be available in Chrome. w3schools was on that list, among other republishers and whatnot. Loved it. Maybe someone else can augment my hazy recollection.
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