2y ago

Brave releases its own privacy-preserving image and video search

www.theverge.com

Brave Search adds native support for image and video search

“Brave Search users can now search for images and videos without being redirected to Google or Bing, though some advanced search capabilities are still absent.”

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2y ago

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Brave releases its own privacy-preserving image and video search

www.theverge.com /2023/8/3/23818388/brave-search-image-video-results-privacy-index

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"Brave releases its own privacy-preserving crypto-included image and video search" there, fixed it.
- They need to make money somehow, and regardless, all the crypto stuff is actually turned off by default, so criticizing Brave for this makes little sense to me.
- I think that's just with Brave browser, not Brave Search. At least, I can't find anything related to crypto in Brave Search settings that are there in Brave Browser (I'm using Firefox with Brave Search).
  
  What is being censored?
- I just pulled it up to make sure I'm not dumb. The date range feature is still there. What am I missing?
  
  It's possible they're currently doing AB testing and removing it for some folks and not others to see how much it's used or if they can get away with not having a date range.
- What is the reason for removing search functionality? Is it really just to make it harder to find what people want and potentially be served more ads? Hopefully site:whateverbutprobablyreddit.com never goes on the chopping block.
  
  People will search for something, won't see it below a bunch of ads, then go back and make a more specific search so they can be served more ads.
- How about Google SearchWiki? Or even just starring results?
  This is from an era when Google hosted their blog on a Blogspot subdomain.
Not interested in any company that welcomes Brendan Eich as CEO.
- Lol you should learn a little about Lemmy developers.
  
  I'm absolutely shocked that someone with an account on a crypto-themed instance is equivocating being a communist and egregious homophobia. Lmao.
- I wonder who co-founded Mozilla...
  
  My point exactly.
Brave Search is now frequently beating DDG and Startpage for accuracy of search results. It's like using Google 10 years ago when it was actually good but without the ads, tracking and pestering to "log in". Good stuff.
- DDG, Google, bing, starypage (which uses bing / Google I believe) are all god awful and getting worse by the day.
  The only one worth a damn is kagi. And it costs money.
  I talked at the idea of paying for a search engine at first but the peace of mind that comes with not being tracked by an out of control hunter seeker dumpster fire is worth it.
  
  Kagi is easily the greatest search engine I've ever used, no exaggeration, the results are just consistently so good, I love all of its features too, like the tracker detection and details on results. I just wish it was cheaper, its really hard for me to justify paying $10 a month for a search engine. If it was cheaper, I'd buy it in a heart beat. Just been using Brave Search in combination with DDG for the time being. Brave Search's CAPTCHAs just drive me nuts, been running into them a lot lately for some reason, that's my biggest problem with it, especially how they require WASM to be enabled every time which is a security risk too.
- I find the image search accuray not that good but in time I know it will beat DDG and Startpage/Google
- Brave has been great. There have been barely any times where I had to switch to Google because I didn't find something, whereas this happened with DDG quite regularly. DDG has one upside with the bang operators making searching something very easy via other search engines
Say what you want about Brave as a company, their browser and search engine products are pretty damn good.
- Well, usually that happens when Americans come it. They freaking love to add politics to anything. Since they are mostly leftist, they bash anything they don't like out of the sake of doing so. Brave is great, I have been using its search engine from the beginning and the browser when Blink engine is enforced, and I cannot use Firefox.
  
  First time hearing America described as mostly leftists.
- I think this is one of the most relevant news as also other users point out in the comments. I was using ddg just because brave search did not support image and video search.
Hey aren't these features removed from the beta than they added them back
- No, it was proxying from bing at first place. Then they removed it.

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