The DuckDuckGo browser is not yet available on other platforms, so if you want to move your browsing history, you may have to do it by hand. As evidence, the company points to the “unprecedented growth” in the Brave browser itself, which has been designed to stop invasive ad trackers.DuckDuckGo is only useful if you only use your phone and don’t want to sync your browsing history between your phone and computer. However, Brave says it’s clear internet users want more privacy. Both the company’s search engine and its Chrome browser have dominated the market for years, despite attempts by Microsoft’s Bing and DuckDuckGo to attract users. (The default search engine on the Brave browser itself goes to Google.) Nevertheless, it won’t be easy to shake Google’s hold over the market. For instance, Brave has vaguely said it’ll use “anonymized contributions from the community” to refine its search results. There are still a lot of unknowns about the search engine. In return, you can use the tokens to fund your favorite publishers and content creators on the web.īrave is creating the search engine via the acquisition of Tailcat (Opens in a new window), an open search engine under development from the same team that created the now-defunct Cliqz web browser. To pull this off, the search engine will incorporate the approach the Brave browser has been using to serve privacy-preserving ads to users: The browser will “pay” you to view specially created Brave ads, and reward you with a digital token. The second will be an ad-supported free version that’ll nevertheless refrain from harvesting your search history. The first is going to be a paid search engine with no ads. Instead, it plans on providing two alternatives. The company behind the Brave browser is developing a privacy-focused alternative search engine that promises to never profile your internet activities.īrave Software is marketing (Opens in a new window) the upcoming search engine as an antidote to “Big Tech,” and Google’s need to harvest your search history to serve relevant ads and offer recommendations.īrave is ditching the data-collection practices entirely.
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