To start off, duckduckgo is safe - much safer (and more private!) compared to google or bing in its raw form. There are however many alternatives to choose, but if you are just getting started on your. I use the duckduckgo windows and android browsers.

Brave search vs. Duckduckgo search - is one better than the other? I read an article on techcrunch (link below) that says soon to be launched brave search is the only real privacy focused search engine. For example, on mobile, which is now more traffic than desktop and continuing to rise faster, local search is the number one sourced indexed, and we maintain our own local index at duckduckgo. I'm using brave, but once i missed a letter and write l instead of k, i automatically redirected to a virussite, and it started to dowload the virus without my permission, so my trust dropped a lot. On this sub people often ask for a minimalist or simple browser, well, duckduckgo fits that requirement. Sure you can't add extensions, but i find the included ad and tracker blocking is good enough for me.

I'm using brave, but once i missed a letter and write l instead of k, i automatically redirected to a virussite, and it started to dowload the virus without my permission, so my trust dropped a lot. On this sub people often ask for a minimalist or simple browser, well, duckduckgo fits that requirement. Sure you can't add extensions, but i find the included ad and tracker blocking is good enough for me.