Sad to see it go, at the same time I never used it and it seems that the rationale is highly pragmatic, so you certainly won't find me protesting the decision.
Privacy is an uphill battle, we should use our efforts where they make the most impact.
It always seemed like Leta was on thin ice since it queried Googles Search API and then cached the results for 30 days, which I believe is against Googles TOS. I wonder if they finally noticed and got mad.
fair enough- i used it a few times but brave was just more convenient- also for everyone here brave does its' own indexing and you can downrank and uprank sites and it will remember it without an accout
a bit tangential but has anyone noticed a serious degredation in quality with duckduckgo? its become completely unusable and ive had to switch to Bing :(
My guess is search's days are numbered and companies are "pivoting" away to other projects
more important than a proxy is having an alternative to google because it is crazy how much they censor search results. just add brave search as a secondary.
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Mullvad sell a VPN and privacy-focused browser so how are they unable to proxy the searches themselves? They already have the needed tools developed.
https://developers.google.com/terms
> you will not [...] keep cached copies longer than permitted by the cache header
My guess is search's days are numbered and companies are "pivoting" away to other projects
a shutdown is preferable to silent bitrot
Still hope Russia looks like Berlin in '45 soon but until then, you can't deny they got the better search engine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117601