Try out searxng! It aggregates from multiple sesrch engines.
I find that, with companies that roll their own search algorithm that the results are often… lacking. I also don’t trust brave as they try to push their crypto on you.
For what its worth, on the browser side of tbings, I run firefox w/ arkenfox
This was my thoughts as well. I understand the need for an audit trail.
Would be very easy to build up an interaction graph with this data that could be used for fingerprinting. If this is an issue for you, though, just browse without signing in/interacting
Was just thinking about this more though, and unfortunately there can also be rogue instances that allow bot users to be created and interact with other instances posts, so this issue could still persist.