

So any personal information entered into that search box is saved.Īs to tracking your ad clicks, I cannot remember the last time I saw an ad on DuckDuckGo, so I cannot myself evaluate how they look and behave. Note that DuckDuckGo does store search queries. But even if they do, Tor Browser should protect you against this (what can be extracted is the IP address of the exit node and the generic user agent shared by thousands of other Tor Browser users). According to their privacy policy ( DuckDuckGo Privacy) they don’t store your IP or browser user agent. As Brave search is still new and evolving so I hope it improves.Not full of trackers and things that can be used to fingerprint a browsing session.ĭuckDuckGo is not full of trackers, but they use their own in-house analytics. Using Startpage is another option but it is owned by an advertising company so there are some concerns there.Īn issue I am having with Brave Search that the dark theme in Search doesnt have good enough contrast between the background and the text. While I admire their 'objective' results but they are somewhat inconvenient in comparison to Google.Įven though my work and daily usage dont require me to have really specific result but still the change from Google to DDG or Brave Search is being a bit hard for me.Įdit: After the discussion I am leaning towards Brave Search as many people suggested to use either bangs or enable 'Google fallback mixing' for anonymous google results within Brave Search.

I tried using Duck Duck Go & the recent Brave search. I use Google in Brave and I know it defies the point of privacy but the search results Google provides are way above than any other platform.
