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I've set Brave Search to be my default search engine for private windows (incognito mode). I've grown annoyed by the cookie consent dialogs and captchas that are presented to me by Google when I open Google's search engine in a private window. Brave Search doesn't have those annoyances.

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It's been my default search for months. I go to Google for images and maps, but Brave search serves most of my needs quite well.

But throwing a monkey wrench into the whole thing is my increasing use of Bing Chat. It's not really a general purpose search replacement, but it does do a more efficient job of answering basic questions succinctly.

Have you tried Yandex for image search? It supports searching by specific sizes like the Google search of yore.

Yandex image search is irrationally good, I've yet to find an image search engine that works as well as it does. I have no idea why

In Brave Browser, it does that automatically when you switch to the private mode.

It lands you on Brave Search instead of what you have set for your regular sessions.

Fine by me.

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