I went from Chrome to FireFox back to Chrome and now to Brave. Brave has actually made me miss Firefox a bit. I'm going to stick with Brave a bit though, I like the Tor functionality and the Wallet function feels useless. I'm not too sure how secure having a copy of your COLD Wallet is on your browser. Additionally, I've been looking into Nord VPN that I also completely passed over the integrated VPN functionality as well.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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As you're already familiar with chrome try Vivaldi, it's built on a fork of the chrome engine so it will handle all Chrome's bits and pieces but it was created by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, who was one of the guys that built and founded Opera back in the day but jumped ship before it got sold out to a Chinese consortium, so not only does it come from the gold standard of pushing the browser envelope from Opera but also von Tetzchner's vehement stance on privacy which has always been a huge part of his ethos.
So if you're after a browser that comes stacked with features like speed dial, mouse gestures, password vault, collapsible side bar (so everything isn't mooshed into the top bar) to name just a few (I'd literally be typing all day otherwise), as well as an iron clad focus on privacy that isn't just for show (have a look into von Tetzchner and read some of his blogs and you'll see) then I highly recommend Vivaldi.
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FF add blockers kept failing me, got sick of it and switches brave a while ago, use it on my phone and tablet too. It works for me. Because Google won't sell my data, I'm not that worried about what brave is doing.
from my experience & tests brave is better for blocking fingerprinting without having a bunch of exensions. witch the extensions themselves would make browsers more unique and identifyable
Are you dense lol
Can anyone recommend a good alternative that works well under Linux and block ads and trackers well? In particular YouTube ads?
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I've been using Brave for over a year now and really like it. Nearly all the functionality of Chrome with none of the privacy issues.
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