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Search.brave.com
I'd rather walk into my local library and ask my librarian for a prompt, then spend 3 hours searching an old encyclopedia for the answer, than ever resolving a domain owned by Brave. Thanks.
OK, what have they done that is worse than Microsoft(bing) (ddg)?
Short answer: inserting affiliate links into results, and weird cryptocurrency stuff. https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology
I don't know if that's "worse than Microsoft" because that's a real high bar. But it's different anyway.
OK, like I said above, I'm not using their browser. How would any of this affect me using a website?
I'm not entirely clear on which (anti-)features are only in the browser vs in the web site as well. It sounds like they are steering people toward their commercial partners like Binance across the board.
Personally I find the cryptocurrency stuff off-putting in general. Not trying to push my opinion on you though. If you don't object to any of that stuff, then as far as I know Brave is fine for you.
I have never run into anything crypto related using their website....
No thanks pass
The brave browser has AI already, it's a matter of time until their search engine does too.
Frankly I trust duckduckgo more than brave with that data.
I also do not have any better suggestions.
I'm not using the brave browser, just the website.
What is the issue with this?
How can an ai summarizer online get anything from my phone?
How's it know what you summarize?
It summarizes the search results???
It doesn't do it for every search. The first searches i tried were things like: "why are people on the internet so stupid" or "how to explain complex things to idiots for dummies"
Its prolly riddled with errors, but the point is that this is part of their website, so anything it uses is on their servers.
nuh uh