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Brave is going ad supported, so it'll be under the same pressure as Google. I'm trying Kagi and still reserving judgement.

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Ya same but it can't be "as bad", right? I realize the naïvete and irony inherent to that speculation but please entertain and edify me

There's no reason to believe that a competitor who's doing worse would do the right thing more...

Interesting point, but wouldn't Brave be more mindful of damaging their reputation for privacy which is basically (in combination with their VPN service) their entire value prop?

Like Google is not known by anybody for privacy...they don't care, not their pigfarm

Awful lotta work they've done to create a platform independant of Google and Bing (particularly with images), it would be a real shame for them if some silly privacy snafu turned them into LastPass (which had far more in quantity and severe in quality) privacy violations and blunders

Before Google, most of the search engines had flashy banners or popup windows for their adverts. At least that was obvious though...

Going back a bit further, web directories charged more to be at the top. And before that the way you found a business was through Yellow Pages, which was pretty much just ads.

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