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Re: Brave Search beta

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Post by manofthunder »

aarnushrithkha wrote: post #689
gigamatt wrote: post #655

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The encryption code is open source as it is in the javascript so you can evaluate it. It's also available in the chrome plug-in, and there's now the app in the android play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privatesh.... so the private.sh web server or related anonymyzing proxy don't have access to your query since it is encrypted. on the gigablast servers will know your query, but they won't k…

Ok but please add anonymous view like startpage and i will recommend my friends use it. Hence startpage is owned by advertising company i cannot trust it anymore. I have only 2 options for myself private.sh or searx. I trust private.sh and gigablast. Thanks matt brother.

Dont trust it until they have source code. It is a scam.

Re: Brave Search beta

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Post by manofthunder »

howolduis wrote: post #371
gigamatt wrote: post #244

I've been working on this private search engine https://private.sh/ for a while. It encrypts your query using client-side javascript so only the Gigablast search engine can read your query. And your query is delivered to Gigablast through an anonymizing proxy that is not in Gigablast's control. So you get TOR-like privacy. Also Gigablast's privacy policy https://gigablast.com/privacy.html shows that your query is not…

are u planning to add image search? also where is the source code?

Even if they add it we need to purchase it like gigablast. Use searx or swisscows instead.

Re: Brave Search beta

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Post by CRConrad »

andreasha wrote: post #630
jonathansampson wrote: post #381

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Indeed, including nearly all of DDG's !bangs :) We also add in some others, such as !so for StackOverflow, !gh for GitHub, and !mdn for the Mozilla Developer Network.

Tip it lacks keyboard shortcuts to navigate search results (up/down, enter).

Arrow and PgUp/Dn keys scroll the page, as per standard Web UI. Tab key jumps from one link to the next, also as per standard Web UI. Maybe they changed that between our comments.

Re: Brave Search beta

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Post by CRConrad »

tills13 wrote: post #645
jonathansampson wrote: post #396

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Google is a Search Engine. Further, it displays content from sites directly in its results. This includes recipes, show times, sporting event details, and more. It has been argued that Google is stealing this data from smaller sites. Brave is (optionally, if you enable the feature) merely using Google (a more mature apparatus) as a means of learning to deliver better results to the user. The only way somebody is goin…

So Google taking data from sites and putting it on theirs is "stealing" but Brave doing that is different and Brave taking results from Google is considered "learning" or "training"? Hmm... I'm beginning to think people just hate Google because it's "cool" to have a negative opinion about it here.

There is a difference:

Google is taking page content from sites and putting it on their own search result page; Brave is taking search-result links from Google and putting them on their own search result page.

Re: Brave Search beta

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Post by CRConrad »

shp0ngle wrote: post #502

Well. When I google myself, I find one page entirely of me, engineer from East Europe. When I Brave-search myself, I find my namesake from Ohio that died in 1919. But, I learned something new about Cleveland Ohio in early 20th century, so I guess it's not that bad.

Another way of looking at it: Hey, Brave really doing its bit for user privacy! ;-)

Re: Brave Search beta

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Post by andreasha »

CRConrad wrote: post #693
andreasha wrote: post #630

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tip it lacks keyboard shortcuts to navigate search results (up/down, enter).

Arrow and PgUp/Dn keys scroll the page, as per standard Web UI. Tab key jumps from one link to the next, also as per standard Web UI. Maybe they changed that between our comments.

That works horribly on the results page, around 10 tabs to get to the first result.

Re: Brave Search beta

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Post by cweagans »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #498
cweagans wrote: post #309

I really cannot understand why people go through the effort of building manual light/dark mode toggles in websites these days. I already set it system-wide. Just default to what I already specified. I see it all over the place and it boggles my mind when the user's preference is just a media query away.

I haven't implemented a client-side setting on my sites yet, but it's in the plans. I can tell you why I plan to do it, and also why I test with no-JS support and in text-mode browsers, implement status indicators and back-to-top buttons, and why I consider Netscape 2.0 a first-class citizen on my domains. Sure, the user-agent "should" provide all of that stuff, but the reality is that most don't have all the feature…

Just saw this. For things that the UA doesn’t provide, I see your point and agree. However, in this specific case, the user agent DOES provide the user preference for light vs dark mode. Why reimplement it?
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