DuckDuckGo vs Brave

In search results, there are no dates when the pages were published, which doesn't allow you to immediately know if the page is outdated.

Company announced that they are downranking misinformation results about the war by Russia media, after Russian's invasion of Ukraine.

They store no information about you (theoretically a pro) but this results in absolutely awful search results, and having to modify your search terms 4-5 times to get what you are looking for.

In a question to Weinberg, “if you were served an NSL or were commanded to compromise your service/customer privacy in any way, would you and could you just pull the plug like Lavabit did or would you run into opposition from shareholders/investors that would prevent you from doing so?” Gabriel Weinberg said: “No one is preventing me from doing that.”

Results are quite often not as good. They just lack resources to do it, for now.

They started to block results based on activism.

Korean would never use it.

A referrer is an HTTP header field that identifies the address of the webpage (i.e. the URI or IRI) that linked to the resource being requested. By checking the referrer, the new webpage can see where the request originated.” Basically it tells a website where you came from. DDG does give this out.

Duckduckgo depends on Bing for the query.

Common conversions do not work, i.e. searching for 15F to C does not give you the conversion but just a bunch of conversion websites. Very frustrating. It's a simple thing but makes a huge difference to the browsing/searching experience. Also location based only works for the country you're in. Searching for, say, McDonalds only gives country results for McDonalds and no local results such as where a local restaurant may be. Not very helpful.

DuckDuckGo is owned by Gabriel Weinberg who is is the founder, current CEO and controlling shareholder. Investors/shareholders include Union Square Ventures and several others. DuckDuckGo generates its income from advertising (Bing Ads) and collects affiliate revenue (Amazon, eBay).

What's duck's goal or quest?

See here and here.

When searching for images only, it shows too few of them and only a handful are related to the search terms.

Using these bangs will instantly connect you to the service you requested. For example typing “!g white cat with green eyes” and hitting return, drops you off on the Google website to display your results (thus logging your IP, search term and browser info immediately). It does not get you Google results inside DuckDuckGo. It is reasonable for DDG users to assume and expect a private search engine warns if there is a risk to that privacy being lost, like it does with Youtube videos but in the case of Bangs this does not happen.

Cloud save and the ability to pull up your settings on any device is a nice idea but the implementation needs work.

Since they don't track you the results are not tailored to your interests.

It's nice to adjust the settings and all but after a couple of days you will want to go back to a more functional search engine.

Sure DDG looks shiny and !bangs are great but many wouldn't consider it as a viable alternative. Better results for search queries is more important than fancy looking CSS.

Since it's based on Chrome.

Brave Software is a for-profit company (though users must opt into Brave ads and Brave doesn't track users.)

Brave takes on a lot of roles besides just browsing so it is understandably a larger file.

Advertisements keep popping up in the Windows notification center. Must opt in to ad system, but no option to disable sound for ad notifications only.

Its adblocker is useless to be honest. Since the extension uBlock Origin is a great blocker by itself, the Brave ad blocker does not block every ad!

On the desktop: Brave uses the same browser engine as Chrome, meaning it has the same security-holes as Chrome. Chrome is a big target for hackers (being the most popular browser in the world), and a webpage that will hack Chrome may also hack Brave.

However, Brave has security features that Chrome doesn't (such as a built-in adblocker). Those features will stop many hacking attempts.

1 tab, 400+ RAM, also it depends on what website you're on.

In previous versions, Brave felt more like Firefox. Now it's been dumbed down, it feels more like Chrome/Chromium. For example: There's no menu-bar.

Unable to sync extensions, no cloud sync (only device sync).

There would be less of a problem with using Web3 solutions if they weren't sometimes looking like an art for art's sake, a jerkcircle shoving down it's own topic down the users' throat. Replacing the Web 2.0 with another commercial solution is bound to end up as a reinvention of the wheel, where even more commercialization and direct monetization will push digital exclusion. Non-profit open source community has achieved great things while so far NFTs and cryptos are, not without a reason, ridiculed.

Only customer support available in Brave community. Mods usually does not help.

Can be accessed with an extension though.

Doesn't clear cache well, shows same page even after emptying it until you ctrl+F5 to get fresh page every time you visit the page(s).

No options to customize apperance, and make the bookmarks appear on the home page, for instance.

Google Search is the first search engine on the list.

Most creators don't use it and so will not profit from the crypto system.

Bookmark management is not as seamless as other browsers.

On reopening Brave, it often returns you to the "search results" page, rather than the webpage you had previously browsed to from the search results page. Might just be a specific configuration.

Per default Brave enables hardware acceleration which results in a much higher energy (battery) consumption than the most other web browsers.

Brave is advertised as a browser that respects your privacy and blocks ads while still supporting content creators. However, at the same time the company is making deals with Facebook, Twitter and others to whitelist their trackers and ads