Never heard of Brave before, thanks for the heads-up, I will give it further examination.
Duck-Duck-Go is a very America-focused crawler, and of not as much use for international users. If you want to check an alternative, Startpage is what I use most, it does not store IPS numbers and allows to seal off your private sphere quite good. I just do not know in how far you as an American resident may fall under special US legislation that forces such internet offers to open up to US demands to compromise security settings, the legal standards for US and European residents/users are quite different by now. Check whether startpage is safe when using it in the US, before trusting it too much.
I would not trust
anything computer-related anymore.
Yahoo still is to be preferred over Google, because although it collects quite a lot of data, the abuse of these data is not yet as excessive as in the case of Google. Better of course is to avoid Yahoo as well. But sometimes these smaller crawlers like Duck-Duck and Startpage just do not cut it.
P.S. Lao Tse, eh...?
