Guys, this is absolutly not doable. Developing an efficient search engine is mush harder than you seems to believe. Actually, believe it or not, but the fact that Google collects data makes it very effecient to provides pertinent search results.

Use Brave for daily run. And TOr for sketchy stuff

I dont think we need a new web browser, nor do I think Proton is correctly positioned to build one.

The best thing they could do is support Firefox development, as that provides the best alternative to big tech. Sure, I guess they could fork FF too.

Would absolutely support this.

Yeah, I think a simple and SECURE browser is needed. One that would be ideal for banking and financials. Strip it down to make it secure like a sandbox but remove all the ads, trackers, and plugins. Like an incognito browser on steroids. Multi-factor authentication, security keys, VPNs, etc...

I don't think creating a search engine is a good idea, it's too hard to make it good. Even DuckDuckGo is not as good as Google, while they are already so long on the market.
But a Chromium web browser would be nice. Brave is adding too many useless things and they try to push their own services via the browser. So I would like to switch to a Proton browser.

Instead of using Google Chrome, Edge, or Opera. If you create your own web browser and Search Engine it would lead to better privacy and ease of mind for those against Big Corporations