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[TommyTran732]

DDG > Brave > SearcXNG > Startpage.

The reasoning for this is literally already listed for most of them. DDG supports no JS mode, making it the best of the bunch. Brave has anonymous analytics enabled by default so it's worse than DDG.

The only thing that's not mentioned is that StartPage sometimes block VPN or Tor IPs, so it is not as friendly and therefore is put at the bottom. This PR added that.

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[dngray]

Also DDG and Brave Search both offer .onion, which is something we favor, but DDG does have a HTML only view so that i guess puts it just above.

[ghost]

look at the preview lol. the page is all messed up

duckduckgo is on there twice and the startpage card is improperly formatted

fixed

[hook9]

I honestly think what DuckDuckGo saves is worse than Brave's usage metrics.

DuckDuckGo:

We also save searches, but again, not in a personally identifiable way, as we do not store IP addresses or unique User agent strings. We use aggregate, non-personal search data to improve things like misspellings.

Brave:

Number of daily/weekly/monthly visits
Number of returning visits
Number of search queries per day
How long you’ve been using Brave Search
Average query length
How many users have chosen to leave feedback about Brave Search
The operating systems people use when they visit (e.g. macOS, Windows, etc)
The browser you’ve visited from (e.g. Brave, Chrome, Safari, etc)

For search queries that only works for some queries, and it can get really murky, for example if the search query contains personal information or anything that can tie it back to the user.

[ghost]

I honestly think what DuckDuckGo saves is worse than Brave's usage metrics.

I do agree with this.

[dngray]

Oh, damn I didn't see this before I merged.

Hmm, I think with Brave/DDG though it might be pretty close because they both have .onion, Brave Search does have anonymous usage metrics that you have to disable.

[ghost]

Brave Search does have anonymous usage metrics that you have to disable.

The usage metrics are still better, I'd argue, than saving every search. And at least the usage metrics can be disabled, whereas Duck's search logs are mandatory.

[dngray]

Point taken, I put in a PR #1405.

Opt out is better than no opt out.

[evil-user]

Heard duckduckgo favors microsoft's trackers, https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/17/brave_duckduckgo/

This is bad for privacy we should favor brave search over duckduckgo. Also duckduckgo does censorship and downranks content which it feels is russian propaganda.