All articles tagged with #privacy focused
The article explores the competitive landscape of web browsers in 2025, highlighting new and upcoming alternatives to Chrome and Safari, including AI-powered browsers like Comet, Dia, and Neon, privacy-focused options such as Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Ladybird, as well as niche browsers like Opera Air, SigmaOS, and Zen Browser, each offering unique features aimed at enhancing user experience, privacy, and well-being.
Privacy-focused search engine Brave is introducing an AI-powered "Answer with AI" feature that provides synthesized answers to user queries, utilizing large language models and reliable data. The company is aware of potential negative impacts on web content publishers and plans to monitor and address disruptions caused by AI-generated content. Other search engines like Google and Bing have also experimented with AI-powered answers, while startups like Perplexity and You.com are competing in the answer engine space.
Brave has announced a new privacy-focused AI search engine called Answer with AI, which operates with its own search index of billions of websites and serves 10 billion search queries per year. The search engine does not default to answering commercial or transactional queries with AI, providing good news for SEOs and online businesses. Brave's AI search engine is powered by its own search index and utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology. It plans to integrate the AI search functionality directly into the Brave Browser and offers tips for ranking well, emphasizing the importance of Schema.org structured data.
The Fairphone 4, a user-repairable smartphone made with ethically sourced materials, is finally coming to the US through a partnership with Murena. The Murena Fairphone 4 variant runs on the privacy-oriented /e/OS and offers two configurations with expandable storage. The phone features a modular design for easy component replacement, an IP54 rating for dust and water protection, and comes with 5G and dual SIM support. It also includes a range of default Murena Cloud apps and a dedicated app store that highlights privacy ratings. The Fairphone 4 is available exclusively from Murena's webstore, with T-Mobile recommended as the carrier. The Murena version is the only model being introduced to the US for now.