Brave safe search12/10/2023 ![]() Note that in this post I deliberately ignore the privacy practices contained in these search providers’ other products. It will be interesting to see how this one matures as well, and whether or not it will continue to be Tor-friendly. I don’t think their search results are as good as the larger providers, especially for regional content, but this may change. They claim to not store IP addresses (but they do process it in some way) or user agents. They rely on their own web crawling for all search results. Considering that the feature is opt-in, and again assuming that their engine builds on this usage data, I am surprised at how good search results their engine provides me with.Īnother up-and-coming search provider I deem interesting is yep.com. I have not found clear information on how this crawling is conducted, but it seems that they use usage data from Brave Browser users. They state that a large majority of search results result from their own crawling, from something they call the Web Discovery Project. But I am interested in knowing more about their independent web crawling methods. I assume (but can’t confirm) that DuckDuckGo works the same way.Īs for Brave Search, I don’t want to judge it straight away as it’s still a rather new search engine. They also transmit search queries to their “partners” (including Bing), presumably to be able to extract and display the search results. They will also read your user agent, but it’s not clear whether this gets linked to your IP address. ![]() ![]() Metager notes in their privacy policy that IP addresses and timestamps of searches are stored for 96 hours, then presumably deleted. So any personal information entered into that search box is saved.Īs to tracking your ad clicks, I cannot remember the last time I saw an ad on DuckDuckGo, so I cannot myself evaluate how they look and behave. Note that DuckDuckGo does store search queries. But even if they do, Tor Browser should protect you against this (what can be extracted is the IP address of the exit node and the generic user agent shared by thousands of other Tor Browser users). According to their privacy policy ( DuckDuckGo Privacy) they don’t store your IP or browser user agent. ![]() I don’t know the details of what is being done to tether the two projects, but as it is a hard linkage in this community forum I have to assume the two technologies are tethered somehow, that might be a mistake strategically speaking.Not full of trackers and things that can be used to fingerprint a browsing session.ĭuckDuckGo is not full of trackers, but they use their own in-house analytics. The search should be independent of browser platform but it seems the Brave project is hooking the two together which will have two effects, one slow adoption, second lead to cross browser issue support overload. This issue is encountered using DuckDuckGo browser, however, I don’t see what this issue has to do with which browser is being used. This will really hurt your adoption by family users if they can trust safe search results. I’ve noticed the safe search filter also does not effectively distinguish between moderate and none, the same unfiltered results are delivered. The introduction of the keyword nurse, seems to trigger only explicit images. For example, compare these two search phrases: I’ve noticed that safe search filter doesn’t work in some non-illicit keyword combinations.
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