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Brave and Brave search have been great.



Hardened Firefox and https://searx.me/ are great to.:)


How does one harden Firefox? What's there beyond Tor browser and/or noscript?


https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js There are hundreds of settings that can be configured to harden Firefox. A lot were upstreamed from the Tor Browser via the Tor Uplift project. The afforementioned user.js is well documented and the most well maintained that I'm aware of.

This is one of the leading reasons why I think Firefox is a better browser than competitors because they don't allow this level of customization without hacking on the source code, like say Brave does. However not even Brave or Ungoogled Chromium is hardened as much as Firefox is with this user.js.


it is like regular Firefox but really hard to install. It will also kill you if it crashes


IIRC, Brave Search is a skin for Bing and Google search engines. These fed orders went out to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.


Yes it does mix in google results if you want it to, but the search is still anonymous.


> but the search is still anonymous

Is this verified though? I ask because Brave is known for some shady things, like pushing their alt coin or sneaking affiliate links into internet browsing.


How does Brave search compare to DuckDuckGo, Startpage, and Qwant?


I've only used DDG and Brave search. I prefer Brave search probably because it mixes in Google results.




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