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A search engine built on its own independent index with no profiling of searchers, and filters that let anyone re-rank results by their own rules.
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Brave Search sits in Privacy & Security under Learn, filed as a minute.
About this category: Breach checkers, fingerprint tests, throwaway inboxes and plain-English readings of terms of service. Mildly alarming, entirely free.
Yes. Brave Search is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Brave Search without signing up for anything.
Yes. Brave Search works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "A minute": One quick round, then you can leave.
One page per leak channel — WebGL, canvas, WebRTC, DNS — each showing precisely what your browser hands over without being asked.
The EFF's test showing how uniquely identifiable your browser is from fonts, plugins and screen size alone. Most people are one in millions.
Runs a standard or extended check to reveal which servers actually saw your DNS lookups. The quickest way to catch a VPN not doing its job.
Search without the profile building, plus bang shortcuts that fire your query straight at another site. Type an exclamation and w for Wikipedia.
Every recipe costed per serving and per batch, with step photos throughout. Built for people cooking against an actual number.
Enormous plain-text library explaining what every placement and aspect is supposed to mean, unpaywalled since the early 2000s.
Type any web feature and see which browsers support it, version by version, alongside how many people actually use each one.
Turns a snippet of code into a tidy image with your choice of theme, font and window frame. The tool behind a lot of shared code screenshots.
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