The beacon bug is fixed now and it should work when disabled.

Same

I’ve been using this as it came as the default for a new Brave install I got. I’m oscillating between it and Google: the former because I don’t want to continue to give Google all this free data, the latter because Google’s results are good (or at least reliably what I expect)

Braves search is still kind of meh, but I appreciate that they’re trying.

Yandex is the worst alternative you could pick. https://www.protocol.com/policy/yandex-gershenzon-qa