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Do you trust Brave company and their products: Browser, Search, VPN, etc..?
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I don't trust Brave one bit. Its whole approach reeks of a bait-and-switch (think "we won't share or sell your data" pre-9/11 Google). Its founder is a massive homophobe and crypto-bro, and I have a massive learned distrust of homophobes and crypto-bros.
Moreover, I see no reason to use it when we already have far superior options (Firefox).
I agree with this distrust. Something about the browser just feels off to me.
I stick with Firefox for browsing, Ecosia for searching, and Mozilla VPN
Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees! I actually forgot about this one. I've been planning to try it.
Only reason I don't use Ecosia is because you can't search for "Within the past year". Which is really necessary when you're a programmer
I don't generally use that feature, even as a programmer, but I use Google at work just because my privacy is already pretty exposed at work and I'm not looking up anything wild on a corporate network. I also enjoy the targeting in this particular instance because then my search results are developer focused
Oh yes, that's very frustrating. It seems like searching within a date range is sadly non-functional on most search engines at this point.
Programmer for many years, didn't know that feature exists. Not sure I'll use it knowing it exists.