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What browsers would you recommend? I use Brave but it's still Chromium under the hood. It's the only one that I never had trouble with adblock though. Also lets me play youtube on mobile when my screen is locked.

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Brave origin on linux looks pretty solid now. Now I'm using that and Librewolf.

I will never use Brave after the debacle where they injected content into sites downloaded over HTTPS to pretend people were promoting their crypto token and adding a "donate" button on the page.

That made me avoid it for a long time but there hasn't been more concerning behavior since, so some point, we can move on.

Did they ever address it? It's still the same company with presumably the same ideals. I was using it daily at the time, maybe it's better now.

Brave is a series scam company. Always has been, always will be.

I just checked it out, but it removes Tor access? It would pretty much downgrade the regular browser

I think using tor in brave just makes you stand out more - stock tor browser is probably a better setup. Whonix even better.

It helps if you're doing mundane things and want to help people who need to mix their sensitive traffic with it.

More people "legitimately" using Tor makes it less likely to have its exit nodes outright blocked, as well, and assuming all traffic from them is malicious.

That's charitable, but even then you probably want to avoid fingerprinting...

Brave it's spyware, keep going with Librewolf. You can disable some fingerprinting support for WebGL -but- you need UBo for sure (and JShelter).

Firefox.

is it as greedy as chrome for the ram?

In my recent experience: definitely yes, though not significantly worse. Unless you have [many] hundreds of tabs open (which I do as I have neither executive function nor organisational skills), or have a machine with very limited RAM, I don't think you'll notice a difference.

This is anecdata, of course, take with a pinch of your preferred flavouring powder.

Chrome on Windows is running with thousands of tabs "open" over dozens of windows, but it does practically max out on a certain number of tabs per window (not just the GUI, but something in the memory architecture), and it does stack fat cache which will crash the whole thing if it digs deeper than your available space.

Windows even runs (semi-playably) 2020's shooters in this condition, though you need to kill any windows close to the tab limit that are full of recently opened tabs.

[Yes, I know, the horror]

Yes: https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026/4

> Chrome also came in at slightly lower memory consumption across all the benchmarks with total memory usage on average at 4.67GB to Firefox at 4.83GB.

Vivaldi - built in ad blocker, the creator is a nice guy, transparent business model. It might be rough around the edges, but it's much better from every alternative imho.

…and Chromium under the hood.

Arc is still great on macOS (not so much the Windows build, essentially an abandoned beta) even if it's not getting active development anymore.

I'm defaulting to Firefox ever since I moved my desktop to CachyOS, but I need to either reacquaint myself with its add-on situation after a long arc of using "chrome alternatives", or migrate to something else niche. Vivaldi was what I was sold on before Arc caught my attention through its wonderful UX/UI.

I heard Arc was abandoned and not getting any more work because they were moving to their new AI browser. So, Zen has replaced it for me, and it is based on Firefox which is nice to avoid the chromium

I still use Firefox. It does all I need with no ads. That's nice.

Konform Browser

Mullvad Browser

Tor Browser for those occasions

Currently using Helium.

This one looks neat, is it also based on Chromium?

Yes.

Safari

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