Brave vs DuckDuckGo | Battle for the BEST BROWSER title 🥊

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Let’s talk about actually private browsers – Brave vs DuckDuckGo! Which one is better? Faster? Stronger? I’ll cover their privacy pratices, search engines, UI and extra features, as well as overall usability.

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👨🏻💻 DuckDuckGo vs Brave privacy comparison

Is DuckDuckGo safe? The browser doesn’t use tracking cookies, doesn’t store user info or expose your searches to third parties. It even keeps the terms you searched hidden from the websites you click on. Plus, whenever possible, the DuckDuckGo browser automatically connects you to encrypted versions of websites.

Is Brave browser safe? It updates connection to HTTPS whenever that’s possible, and blocks third-party cookies and trackers. It also doesn’t collect or share user data. Yet Brave browser takes things a step further. It blocks ads by default, doesn’t store browsing history and when syncing data across devices, it encrypts it, so nobody but you has access to it. Brave also has a private browsing mode that’s powered by Tor.

🐥 Search engines

With the DuckDuckGo search engine – you have no option to change it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s pretty good, but it’s nothing super impressive. It takes results from other search engines and anonymizes them. What about the Brave search engine? Once again, Brave is more customizable in this case. Brave Search has its own independent search index with more control over results and ranking. It allows you to choose HOW the results are ranked. Plus, you can also completely switch it.

🦁 Extra features

Both browsers have a lot to show. DuckDuckGo has this very awesome “Fire” button that completely closes all your tabs and data. Then you’ve got the Bangs – shortcuts to the most popular websites. I also wanted to mention the DuckDuckGo VPN. Brave Browser VPN is also a thing! But if you want a VPN, something like NordVPN or Surfshark will be a better choice – and often cheaper too.

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00:00 Intro
00:33 Is DuckDuckGo good for privacy?
01:30 Is Brave Browser safe to use?
02:31 Brave vs DuckDuckGo UI & search engines
04:02 DuckDuckGo features
04:52 Brave browser features
06:13 Performance comparison
06:30 Conclusion
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[cooltechzone]

Which browser is your pick? Let me know in the comments!👇

[BraveSoftware]

Glad to hear you're enjoying our browser!

[ichich]

i have used brave ever since it started and love it.

[vanwrinkle-]

I've been using Brave for a number of years now. They would have to screw up majorly for me to change. I detest microlimp and giggle so you won't catch me using either of them.

Forgot, I also have Firefox as a backup.

[swbz]

I use Brave as browser and duckduckgo in background for the app tracker protection on android. I find the combination rather good

[steliosgiannelos]

Great video mate! Use both on mobile and brave on pc. Brave is actually great as a daily driver on mobile, although it lacks the vpn feature.

[BillTxn]

I recently switched to Brave from Edge and have been, for the most part, very pleased. There are some differences in functionality, but that has more to do with my learning Brave's particular features.

[zohair.questionmark]

this is a genuinley great video. i appreciate all the time put into this, very clean entertaining and straight to the point, ty man

[ckhound]

Switched to DDG from Firefox and Brave. Firefox was killing me with horrible website usability, and Brave just has too many weird things I dont wanna deal with (crypto stuff, having to dig into settings just to play a netflix video, etc). I like the simplicity of DDG.

[jesusvergara]

I use brave because it has ad blocker.

[__Robin_______]

it is a goose, what is duckduckgo short for? 🤦

[MD-ngrv]

DDG is easier to use. Safe enough compared to mainstream. Don't need any more additional privacy. Unless your a freak.

[petedavid]

Brave blocks more than ddg, especially geolocation and browser fingerprinting. With DDG I can be traced to my house. Not with Brave. Plus my device details are not leaked which makes identification harder as well

[CosmicTuxedo]

Brave > DDG

Only thing DDG does better is provide more search results.

[EGGFDMM]

guys.. i have 427, 923 ads and trackers blocked in brave

[rox-star]

Duck Duck Go on Android, blocks all my apps tracking me, built in

[tomcatpurr]

it should be a grey duck, not a goose..

[KyleGeswindt-qh]

As a guy that only used Brave I have to say it's way better and more private then chrome

[dynaelder]

I am using the Brave browser but with Duck duck search. Not sure if this is the right choice.

[johanb.]

Brave coming from Firefox because Firefox has issues on Viaplay, which I use to watch the Premier League and it uses less memory than Firefox.