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jakequade on March 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, ...

Brave is still based on Chromium, and Google is the opposite of "no tracking, no profiling".

I'll stick to Firefox + DDG, thanks.

BrendanEich on March 4, 2021 [–]

Are you worried about tracking in the Chromium code? If so please see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-....

Otherwise if you are worried about engine monoculture, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26337402.

If neither of these is the issue, what is?

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