

Google is not particularly known for its privacy which is understandable that Brave is opting for its own inhouse search engine. In other words, existing users will still have their default search engine as Google or whatever you set it to be. However, if it happens that the search engine you prefer is not present, there is an option at the bottom of the list of search engines to add it right in front of the “other search engines”.Īt the end of the day, Brave’s change is only effective on subsequent installation of the browser and not existing users. Read More: What are Google Chrome Flags and how to turn them onįurthermore, if you decide not to choose Google as your search engine of choice, there are other options there you can choose from. Shortcut: You can just type “brave://settings/searchEngines” into the address bar and skip steps 1 to 3. Step 4: Under “Default search engines”, click on the three dots in front of the search engine you want as default which in this case is Google and click on “Make deault”.Step 3: Select “Search engine” and click on “manage search engine”.Step 2: Enter settings close to the bottom of the menu list.Step 1: Click on the menu icon at the top right corner.Similarly, the number of sites that allow Google and Bing may decrease in the future if these companies do things to tick off the operators of those sites.How to make Google the default search engine on Brave Steps to make Google your default browser. The number of web sites that allow Brave will increase as Brave’s search engine gets more popular because users will demand it. Microsoft’s history hasn’t exactly been spotless either and I suspect many users (especially Duck Duck Go users) would prefer a privacy-focused search engine that doesn’t support them. But there’s no guarantee about this either. Right now, people seem to be moving to Bing (and Duck Duck Go, which I believe uses Bing’s back-end). Lots of people are moving to alternative search engines as a result. Not just over privacy concerns but over censoring news/search results, biasing search results in favor of other Google-operated sites and other issues. Google is very high profile in the news and they have been offiending quite a lot of people. There is absolutely no guarantee it will be this way in the future. #1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.Like most browsers these days (apart from Firefox. #1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura Brave is a browser with an emphasis on privacy and ad-blocking, but at the same time, it lets you earn cryptocurrency while you browse.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.
