I heard a lot of bad stuff about Brave and their CEO lately and am now unsure if the search engine is any good? Do they censor stuff? Is any data collected? Can it be considered private?
If you’d not recommend it, what are good alternatives and why? I was a long time duckduckgo user before, so anything similar to it or brave search would be great. I’m not into self hosting.
No. Use Qwant instead.
Just gave it a try… Doesn’t appear to work for browser default search settings? I do a search and see results for about 2 seconds before it then shows their search page. I used
https://www.qwant.com?q=%sfor the query. Liked the search results I tested it with but not being able to use the search bar for quick searches is a deal breaker for me :(Try:
https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s
Nah same results :( maybe Firefox nightly mobile problem?
Must be. I had difficulties with it at one point, and I ended up living at the URL from some search results and was able to figure out what it wanted. I thought the missing slash might have been your issue.