Until the past month, when I would search for a news story on StartPage, it would give me several pages of listings under the news tab unless it was an obscure story. Now, it gives me a single page. At the bottom of the page, there's a single 1 instead of the multiple digits there used to be. Same for Brave. Looks like they've been cucked.
I'm not using Bing or Google, or their whore, duckduckgo.
Startpage is using Google search, so it's censored from source. It's also owned by an ad agency. https://digdeeper.club/articles/search.xhtml#startpage
Brave uses their own Tailcat crawler, but it's a bought product that attemps to resemble google algorithms. It's still the best alternatives to google/bing though.
Brave results give me shittier google results. Basically. Brave is fine for normal stuff that you know you'd find on google but dont want them to get likes.
For actually important searches u just have to double check with yandex at least. It's all so annoying