Hello! I use Firefox with brave search, recently many pages were taken down by the goverment bcs political situations. As a Venezuelan brave User I notice that Brave search not longers works unless I use a VPN, the page appears to be blocked both in my computer and in the phone even when I switch wifi. Strangely the other search engines like DuckduckGo, Google, bing seem to be unaffected by this
It would be good to know if there is a work around to this situation could be added, so I don’t have to use a VPN because of the privacy issues associated with VPNs
The government (or more likely the ISP, under bribing/payment/pressure by the government), is prepared to study and track users of DuckDuckGo, Google, and bing.
But, the government is not prepared to study and track users of the Brave Search engine.
Whatever the government studies and tracks, the government probably does not gain an equal or greater than stack of data about VPN users - we hope.
BTW, the “block” might be, that the government is not allowing some ranges of IP addresses, and the who of it, is not an issue.