Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by victor_z | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

victor_z

Probably. But DDG at least offers more privacy, right?

Right?

View on HN

DDG has a history of breaching privacy: https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blo...

Meanwhile Brave Search or Mojeek provide more privacy, being independent at the same time.

> Brave Search or Mojeek provide more privacy

Do they? Or have they just not had that "history" yet? I don't see anything fundamentally different in Brave that protects your and my privacy better than on DDG. I don't know Mojeek enough.

Brave explicitly claims not to.[1] Brave also does not rely on Bing for results.

[1] https://search.brave.com/help/privacy-policy

Edit: mojeek claims the same.[2]

[2] https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy/

Last time i checked, Brave was insisting on convinving me to use certain cryptocurrency platforms and it was more intrusive with it than typical web ads, which seemed really twisted, as the same Brave claimed to give ad-free experience.

Are they still doing that?

They don't. The cryptocurrency options are all disabled by default and are opt-in.

It literally never did that. There's some crypto wallet button that you get in the address bar that you can disable with a right click, and that's pretty much the extent of it. All crypto and other related functionality is completely opt-in.

Yes, those ads are still part of Brave.

What ads? I'm writing this on Brave and I've never seen any ads. Are we talking about the same browser?

I was talking about Brave Search (https://search.brave.com), not Brave browser. Seaech doesn't promote crypto.

No, they're not. I've been using Brave almost since its inception and I still have no idea what its cryptocurrency features are. Nor have I ever seen an intrusive ad from Brave, or anywhere else since Brave has an ad blocker built in.

Why does this same conversation happen every time Brave is mentioned on HN? Have any of the people complaining about Brave's crypto-whatever "problem" ever actually used it?

That only concern the browser not the search engine ?

HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490515

Cause Brave CEO, Brendan Eich, is such a swell guy.

That is true, but it's referring to their android browser app not their search engine, if I've read correctly.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com