I’ve used Brave for years (here and everywhere else). Love it. On the rare occasion I pull up Edge I’m floored by how many ads I’m NOT seeing with Brave. That would drive me right off the internet if I had to put up with that.
Brave. Yep.
browser or search engine ?
duckduckgo produces a browser and a search engine.
Its search engine is embedded in their browser.
Their search engine is also stand-a-lone.
I use Vivaldi browser and my default search engine of choice in Vivaldi is duckduckgo.
If you like Firefox try floorp.
https://floorp.app/en
fwiw
I am testing “result hunter” so far, not too shabby. It’s built off of brave. They also interact with google which is a turn off for a lot of people....
https://resulthunter.com
Result Hunter is the search engine created by conservatives for conservatives. How it’s done: Start with a free-speech algorithm. Then reduce corporate media. Add labels to conservative-owned results. Finally, suggest conservative alternatives to help users make a difference with their dollars.
Hi, I’m JT Smith
I’m the owner and creator of Result Hunter.
I made Result Hunter because I wanted a different search experience, one with less big media articles and more articles that are straight and to the point with data and individual contributors. I wanted this without sacrificing all the more fun, entertaining, or quick fact-based searches I might conduct.
Our goal is to be the #1 search engine for people who believe in free markets, family values, and private charity.
I’ve intentionally built Result Hunter with my own time and money so that I can do what I think is right, rather than be influenced by investors or other stakeholders.
Is Big Tech Bad?
Let’s talk about big tech search engines. They are incredible at technology. Technologically speaking, big search engines have sent the human race further toward the future.
Big tech might know your browsing activity, and may know a lot about you. But they don’t know your values and your needs or what kinds of causes you’d like to support. They have their own biases, and it’s important to realize that those biases are baked into their algorithms, rankings, homepage.
Much to the chagrin of those who want a completely neutral search engine, there’s no ranking parameter for “neutral=yes” or a ranking parameter for “truth=yes”. What I mean is, the search engine chooses signals to try to determine trust and relevance as proxies for truth, but also add in a few custom things in there as well.
1. These signals often just mean the rich get richer, those with political and social advantage have higher signals and this is completely unrelated to truth.
2. There are entire topics that Google and Bing have intentionally silenced
It’s risky for freedom-loving, family-first citizens to let this happen.
If Big Tech controls the flow of information on the web across the globe, they control the political and social narratives.
Sidenote: There’s also a ton of money in tech. The top search engine makes over $100 per US citizen from their search product! Do you trust that your $100 is being invested and donated into causes that you believe in?
Our search engine values individuals above collectives, truth over agendas, and freedom over collectivism.
If that’s something you’re interested in, make Result Hunter your default search and we can work toward these goals together!
How Result Hunter works
When you make a query, so many things happen in the background it’s hard to describe. But the core search is built with Brave APIs, but we add our own modifications to each of them mostly to bring forth individual voices and reduce the power of big media and corporate voices. To provide instant answers, charts, graphs, etc we use a number of APIs and custom in-house solutions.
For ads we take a very free speech approach, whoever pays the most gets in first place regardless of political persuasion. We have two main sources of search ads. Most important, we built our own ad network called Strong Keyword, and if you’d like to advertise on Result Hunter specifically you can create a campaign and use feed ID 701802 but I recommend just serving on all of our search inventory.
We do backfill will Google search ads and some affiliate opportunities as well. The more advertisers sign up for Strong Keyword, the less we’ll need to backfill.
The best way to install Result Hunter on desktop is with the Chrome and Mozilla Firefox and Safari extensions, on mobile Chrome we have instructions to help you install and on mobile Safari you can use the Safari extension.
By default, your search experience is set on Safe Search: Strict. This keeps the results somewhat family friendly, although when searching for non-family friendly terms, you will still likely get results that are not family friendly. You can change the Safe Search setting using the top right menu.
Search options include Web, Images, News, and Research. We’re working on more search engines all the time.
For Christians
When I first created Result Hunter I saw a clear political divide in how big tech operates. It’s all one sided and I wanted to bring forth the other side.
But as time went on, as a Christian I really wanted to build something for my fellow Christians. There’s not just a political gap in big tech, but also a faith gap. I wanted something to enhance purity, give me more relevant results for my values, and ultimately to lead people to Christ.
I also thought it might be unfair to those using Result Hunter to suddenly switch everything to be faith oriented. After all, Result Hunter serves a very valuable purpose as a counterbalance to leftist tech bias.
Enter the Christian search engine, Glorifind. If you’re a Christian looking for a search experience, you might find this pretty special.
For Kids
I also built ABCSearch.org to keep kids safe online. Eventually all kids gain access to the internet. Parents have some control over when and how, but a lot of parents just let their kids run wild online. That’s not necessarily a great idea.
ABCSearch is a great alternative to switch search engines on any devices your kids have access to. This augments the results to focus on facts, learning, stories and games. It uses safe search and has additional social network blocking and query protections for a much safer experience.
How to Support My Efforts
I’m an independent creator who is not privy to pressures of any investors.
My search engine is net positive in revenue from ads, so I just need more users. The best support I could get is if you use the search engine regularly and influence a friend or ten to use the search engine as well.
Share Result Hunter wherever you know people care about freedom. That includes local radio, because there’s some amazing programs out there and they have more influence than you think.
Further Reading
The Myth of the Unbiased Search Engine
Echo Chambers
I use Brave and have zero complaints about it. I wanted to get as far away from the Silicon Valley blob and anything they control as I could.
Get Vivaldi browser. You can customize it and you can use their builtin ad blocker.
https://vivaldi.com/features/ad-blocker
Vivaldi browser
https://vivaldi.com
Good morning!
Go to the website”Major Geek”, go to browser, and find “slim browser”. Works well for me.
Brave browser on your phone will block ads on youtube.
For example, I have to use Google Chrome to fill in the PDF documents for my wife's cremation. Brave would not allow me (or I couldn't figure out what extension I needed) to use e-sign on them.
Search does not report back many images, either.
Never ever had Windows refuse to install a program but telling me to go to their store. I am running W/11 Pro, 23h2. And by the grace of God I have multiple installations of Firefox Portable, as well as Floorp (Gecko=Firefox-based) and one of Midori and 2 of Chromium-based Vivaldi stand-alone and void any browser that cannot not enable multiple tab rows, which all of these can, Floorp and Midori as an option.
bkmk
When you tried to install Chrome are you sure that you were being blocked, or just strongly discouraged with options to proceed with the download?
+1 for Brave as well. Use it heavily across several devices android and Windows. It also has a “browser fingerprinting” mechanism to keep ads/trackers confused.
Love how it syncs data across the devices although I use Keepass for passwords and things.
Brave is great. NO ADS. Websites load fast without ads.
Definitely Brave. Most ads are blocked.
Do not use Google Chrome.
If using Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, use uBlock Origin extension.
Back up your user data.
DO NOT maintain a website login status <— ALWAYS log out, exit / quit.
Losing your bookmarks, history, passwords, and tabs <— that, is one reason for maintaining daily routine backups.
EXPECT something to go wrong <— that, is a reason for maintaining daily routine backups.
DISABLE location services.
Brave...
Brave gets rid of Youtube ads in streams which occur every 10 minutes. Yes, you can modify the other browsers with extensions, but as far as I know, Brave is the only browser that does this by default. I’ve been using it since 2021