If you have the Brave Browser installed on your Windows devices, then you may also have Brave VPN services installed on the machine. Brave installs these services without user consent on Windows devices.

Brave Firewall + VPN is an extra service that Brave users may subscribe to for a monthly fee. Launched in mid-2022, it is a cooperation between Brave Software, maker of Brave Browser, and Guardian, the company that operates the VPN and the firewall solution. The firewall and VPN solution is available for $9.99 per month.

  • chris@lemmy.mlEnglish
    62·
    9 months ago

    Yes it is 10 dollars a month, but you can create an account and try it for free to see if it is for you. It also does not use your data nor push advertisements which explains the cost.

    • whale@lemm.ee
      11·
      9 months ago

      Right now, the only thing preventing them from collecting data is their word. And they don’t exactly have a good reputation for keeping their promises… or putting their money in good places.

      The last things I’ve seen with Brave choosing where their money goes has included

      1. Sponsoring a cryptocurrency gaming event that garnered almost no attention whatsoever
      2. Their wallet partner Gemini getting sued by New York for $1.1 billion of fraud

      The clearly have plenty of money, their software is being developed off the backs of giants (they defer to Google and Jitsi for the bulk of their work) and I don’t think throwing more money at them would be wise

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
      English
      26·
      9 months ago

      ddg does that for free

      $10/mo is also crazy overpriced for a search engine, they’re really not resource intensive at all

      • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
        51·
        9 months ago

        ddg relies on Bing so it isn’t really comparable, idk about kagi’s costs but they claim 1.2 cent per search and an average of 700 searches per month (as what they are serving and hence pricing for)

        • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
          English
          14·
          9 months ago

          If you mean has a crawler, ddg does crawl and augments with bing. Kagi doesn’t have any crawler.

              • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                3·
                9 months ago

                I’m going off of personal experience. I’ve used them all for SEO, and I find Kagi’s results and experience better for my own personal use.

                • whale@lemm.ee
                  2·
                  9 months ago

                  When you say SEO, do you mean that you can reliably get Kagi to operate in a way that works for you or your clients?

                  There could be a potential conflict of interest there, so could you clarify about how you’ve found it to be good? E.g. there’s a lot of sketchy practices in the SEO community, and returning the most accurate search results might be at odds with a company wanting to be at the top of a set of results, for example.

                  I only have a passing interesting in Kagi, BTW.

                  • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                    2·
                    9 months ago

                    Not exactly. Mostly what I’m doing with “SEO” is making sure pages show up correctly on each search engine, such as the text previews and what pages come up if you just search for my client’s name. If you don’t format your webpage correctly, it can look pretty bad on some search engines. For Kagi specifically, it seems to pull the appropriate content and text previews from my client’s sites most often, if that makes sense.

                    Since I’m self taught and self employed I don’t do any of the shady things (at least, I hope) that actual SEO community might be doing, and I definitely can’t afford to “pay off” any company to get better results.