Private Search Engine?

[anon73850698]

@FreeMind

don’t care that he is selling his own vpn, email server, phone, why not?
If he can make money with privacy products that’s a good thing.

He SCAMMED people.

[WR47H_OF_O5IRI2]

The 14 eyes are 14 countries that share their data with one another incase of a “crime”
If the hosting server is in one of those countries then you have risk.
Even if a new instance is fast and in one of those countries then the no log keeping nature of searx keeps you safe regardless.

If you need to do reverse image search then searx does not have that function, use tor or incognito with unblock origin/arkenfox and vpn to use something like yandex image search, it is considered the best after pimeyes.

As for instances to use, I like using https://searx.tiekoetter.com/ or https://searx.tuxcloud.net/
They work the best for me

[gamercool287]

I mostly use brave search since i do not like ddg results together with their scandels and i cannot use startpage since it blocks ips from vpns. So when brave search came into beta i started using it and now i use it on pretty much every browser

[gamercool287]

I have seen the 2fa is a scam video however he just means 2fa via sms is a scam. If you had watched it and yes some videos like these are clickbait however you make everything look twice as bad like i understand you may not want to use anything created by him but calling him a scammer goes way too far

[ewEfA2jy]

And some of those have onion addresses aviable. That’s quite cool for certain threat models.

[anon73850698]

@anon73850698

More stuff on why you shouldn’t trust Rob-

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/zf40xs/embarrassed_that_i_got_swindled_by_rob_braxman/
2. https://twitter.com/TommyTran732/status/1539116947819966465
3. https://twitter.com/TommyTran732/status/1519499177759322114
4. https://twitter.com/TommyTran732/status/1519771667458895878

I think you missed this part of my post.

@gamercool287

you make everything look twice as bad

No. A fraud salesman is what he is. He ships Brax phone with Lineage as the base OS(bad security). He makes people insecure about what software they use, and forms a cult following(go to his comment section, you’ll know exactly what I am talking about) and sells his shitty products to his cults.

His shitty phones are sold at about $400 shipping with a Android 10, any local store will sell you the same exact phone with half the price. Also see the reddit post in which OP claims to be scammed by Rob where he didn’t recieve the order I suppose.

Multiple people in the forum seem to agree too,

Has anyone seen this video? Wondering your thoughts

Since I seem to have made a cameo in this video and called toxic because I called Rob Braxman “not reliable”, I guess I’ll provide some context since the uploader of this video clearly did not read past the message. My response was caused by a claim Braxman made that AT&T peering stations “shut down” port 1194 for 5 days, which is utter nonsense and would have been noticed by people other than him. The original poster who I replied to agreed that he routinely makes fabricated and overblown clai…

YouTube channels?

Mental outlaw is the last guy you want to be watching for privacy/security. The guy is straight up bonkers. Says Open Source more secure, Linux secure Promotes Security through obscurity etc etc. Rob Braxman is another bloke. Lad spreads FUD and same security misconceptions to sell his stuff. He also uses outdated security mechanisims in his Social Media.

YouTube channels?

I doubt channels like The Hated One are actually being shadow banned on YouTube, he’s put a pretty heavy emphasis on overly political and controversial videos recently, and that sort of thing tends to turn away audiences. YouTube’s algorithm exists to keep people on YouTube, so if you are making content that your audience enjoys you’ll be promoted, and if you stop making content your audience enjoys then… maybe it looks like you’re being shadow banned I gotta second avoiding Rob…

It’s advisable not to watch him or pay for his stuff.

Alternatives

Brax phone: Latest Pixel with Graphene installed. Using the web installer is quite easy and is the recommended method.

Brax.me social: Mastadon

Brax VPN: IVPN, Mullvad or ProtonVPN.

[FreeMind]

Thanks for that.