Reddit is a heavily controlled and censored ideological bubble where critical discussion is regularly banned and accounts removed based on simple disagreement of opinions. Brave uses reddit as its main information source for all searches and prioritizes reddit content at the top of all search pages. It is completely ruining your brand and any trust anyone ever had in your product. Please stop supporting censorship and pushing ideologically controlled information sources on your users.
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@Utidiysyisitdixoxohd Brave uses everything and doesn’t censor. You are sitting here asking Brave to censor their search results because you think one potential source also censors. Notice the irony and hypocrisy there?
Anyway, Brave does provide a tool called Goggles and you can also use search operators to filter/rank search results in a way you want for yourself, including omitting results from any particular source.
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Why is it always reddit and not other sites? Forums have been abandoned in search results and I never even see gab.com in them. Seems like the search engines are not searching very wide anymore and just focusing on a couple of sites.
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Example of using Brave Search Engine Operators:
[YOUR KEYWORDS HERE] NOT site:reddit.com AND NOT site:cnn.com
@Bjornir reddit does seem to show up far more frequently than others but there are others sites that can show up in this Discussions section. I’ve just now asked Search team for clarification on this and why reddit shows up disproportionately more frequently than other sites/forums.
Absolutely agree with this one, Reddit is basically an ideological echo chamber of the most radical and insane beliefs, where only groupthink and comformity to the masses is allowed. Reddit is helpful sometimes but don’t dare ever go into any political, religious or otherwise divisive sub, same as Wikipedia, as the bias is very clearly shown. I wish brave would use more neutral sites, or just not use Reddit as its main source.
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WELL they use reddit more than any other search, it’s also bad that they allow background videos to play without knowing, cut out extensions that google doesn’t like. In fact Brave seems to be all up in googles hole now.
I understand your frustration with censorship and the prioritization of certain platforms. It’s important for tools like Brave to stay true to their promise of privacy and open access to diverse perspectives. If Reddit’s influence on search results is bothering you, it might be worth exploring additional settings or alternatives for a more balanced experience.