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I will now try Vivaldi, which is also based off Chromium.

You mean backing Google because of Chromium? It's not my favorite link, but I also don't see how Google benefits? Except perhaps by open source contributions to Chromium that can be reintegrated into Chrome?

They chose differently.

If you don't live in the 3rd world, there is in any case a high likelihood that you can earn it back. It is on the scale of a months salary, not years.

Afaik dissenter from Gab is a fork from Brave, presumably without the crypto.

Last I checked (briefly after it was released), I didn't care that much for the right leaning comments. But maybe it has improved or it can be filtered.

They also claim that The New York Times and news outlets the NYT recommends represent "factual voices" that need to be amplified.

I'm looking for alternatives after 24 years with Mozilla.

I used to worry about their sinking market share. Now I celebrate it (2.66% if mobile browsers are included).

Unfortunately most alternatives are based on Chromium, and Google is of course also not a neutral player.

Still, there are some interesting browsers to be discovered. Opera has some really nice features now (like workspaces and a free VPN), but it's closed source and partially owned by a Chinese company. But it shows that innovation is still possible in the browser space.

It's nevertheless a sum you can make back, eventually.

Betting 1000$ is not a crazy risk.

Except for 120% of what you made. So I guess you didn't have much to sell to begin with.