I have a previous post on a couple privacy search proxies I run, but I wanted to highlight that you can configure the search engines used with SearXNG. And duckduckgo already uses Bing, so you don’t need that one, but Brave is running their own crawlers and worth noting. So if you didn’t want other search engine results, you could use SearXNG to just be a privacy proxy for Brave.
And if you have more than one search engine active, SearXNG will show you what engines the result returned from.
Consequently, a lot of people love the Brave Browser, but I just never cared for what they were trying to do with adding crypto and trying to substitute in their own ads. It always looked like a project trying to weasel in a way to get advertising dollars for themselves off the backs of others. Originally they wanted to use Bitcoin where you could pay a site to not see advertisements, but now they have their own crypto coin where you can get paid to see ads and supposedly spend it with registered sites, but I don’t think it’s gotten much traction. Now Brave is running their own crawlers for search results and probably trying to go the ad route of Google along with other products like VPN, crypto wallet, crypto exchange… Brandon Eich who runs the operation is the creator of Javascript, and was running Mozilla until forced out for a donation to support the marriage referendum in California that recognized marriage as between a man and woman only, which passed but was later stricken down by a corrupt gay judge who should have recused himself for bias.
And Firefox with a little tweaking can be as good a privacy browser as Brave, and if you really want more privacy there is Librewolf, Mullvad and Tor Browser, all based on the Firefox codebase, but Mullvad had help with theirs by the Tor project. The problem with strict privacy settings though, is that it breaks a lot of webpages. Consequently, Mozilla is going severely woke as their management is just taking all the money coming in from Google for search placement, having lost site of what the project is supposed to be with managing the free and open source Firefox browser, and now moving themselves towards advertising revenue and reselling Mullvad products at twice the price. However, there is one shining light with a new project Ladybird which has made the statement that they’re just about the technology and making good software, but immediately came under attack from the extreme liberal left trying to hijack the project, as open software to them needs to support Neo-Marxist gender ideology. So there is a lot of changes in the browser market and the situation is quite fluid and we may need to change what we use, and to make it even stranger, the US government might make Google sell their Chrome/Chromium browser. Stay tuned.