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.
Doesn’t qwant try and show ads?
Last time I checked they had something in the corner that said “this ad matched the search term used” and then it said “clicks are managed by Microsoft’s privacy policy”