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If the assumption is that browsers track because it benefits the company commercially, it would be really cool if a company produced a browser at a premium that didn't do all of the above - this model must exist already? Privacy for a price sounds like a bad precedent to set though.

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> Privacy for a price sounds like a bad precedent to set though.

If you think about it, it's not. The lack of privacy is because people expect things for free.

Unless the software is open source and only community supported, it's the only precedent that makes financial sense.

Which is precisely why I use Firefox. Once you disable Pocket, I think you can be reasonably sure the browser isn't tracking you, but websites surely do. If you want to limit websites tracking you, your best option IMO is Tor Browser, which is also based on Firefox.

If you want the "paid" option, Brave apparently tries to reward content creators for good advertising behavior, while blocking bad ads.

Here's a guide: https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/

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