I’ve seen a lot of discourse over which browsers we use and I myself have made the switch from brave to firefox. I still use brave as my search engine though, so… which do yall recommend? Is brave’s engine necessarily bad to use? I personally like its ui/theme.

  • upperleft@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s pretty rare for people to not be logged into a Google service though, especially on mobile.

    If that is the case then this conversation is somewhat moot isn’t it? But I also don’t really think it is all that rare for iOS users.

    You can get a bunch of people to use it though (friends and family).

    That’s a good point, definitely see a benefit then.

    I also doubt they build profiles just based on IP, since it’s not uncommon to share IPs given the IPv4 shortage. There’s also CGNAT where hundreds of thousands of people share a sml number of public IPs.

    Certainly, and because of that you don’t really need a proxy.

    There are definitely some benefits to such a setup, I just don’t think it really is superior to a search provider that is built around not logging and selling your searches. At least not to the degree it gets recommended in these types of posts.