I used Firefox from Firebird beta 0.79 all the way up until the Mozilla board fired Brandon Eich. From there I switched to Pale Moon for a long time, but a few years ago Pale Moon dropped support for Firefox plug ins, so I had to switch, and went to Waterfox, which I still use today.
I will never use Chrome, Google is evil incarnate.
Never use Chrome, but there are some reasons to use a Chromium fork browser.
On privacy, just using Pale Moon gives them like 10 bits of signal to id you with on top of all the other things they can use. That's huge. Brave looks like any other Chromium except with fingerprint randomization for lots of things.
Also the more Chromium forks there are the harder it is for Google to make changes because they have to keep the forks from splitting off on their own.
For example with the new manifest to limit adblocking, if Brave/Edge/Vivaldi/Opera don't accept that change then Google's 75% market share drops to maybe 60% or something like that and those others are virtually identical except with better features so it's easy for people to switch.
Google has already delayed manifest v3 by 4 months so far for this reason. They say "intently monitoring comments from the developer community to help inform our timelines" and what that means is "finding some way to do it without losing the forks".
I have tried Brave. I have many bookmarks, and it does not handle bookmarks well.
I use pi hole on my network, so I am not so concerned with advertising and tracking per se, because I can block a lot of that at the DNS level, but it is hard to find a browser put out by people that even give lip service to security and privacy.
DNS blockers will become irrelevent when ads are served as first-parties on sites, which goes hand-in-hand with googles MV3 and Shadow/DOM push. As well as PWA's. Just a PSA ;)
Adblocking is already a massive nuisance on Twitch and they are essentially serving their own ads, for me the only thing that works is a chrome extension in Brave, same extension fails to work in Chrome.
I used Firefox from Firebird beta 0.79 all the way up until the Mozilla board fired Brandon Eich. From there I switched to Pale Moon for a long time, but a few years ago Pale Moon dropped support for Firefox plug ins, so I had to switch, and went to Waterfox, which I still use today.
I will never use Chrome, Google is evil incarnate.
Never use Chrome, but there are some reasons to use a Chromium fork browser.
On privacy, just using Pale Moon gives them like 10 bits of signal to id you with on top of all the other things they can use. That's huge. Brave looks like any other Chromium except with fingerprint randomization for lots of things.
Also the more Chromium forks there are the harder it is for Google to make changes because they have to keep the forks from splitting off on their own.
For example with the new manifest to limit adblocking, if Brave/Edge/Vivaldi/Opera don't accept that change then Google's 75% market share drops to maybe 60% or something like that and those others are virtually identical except with better features so it's easy for people to switch.
Google has already delayed manifest v3 by 4 months so far for this reason. They say "intently monitoring comments from the developer community to help inform our timelines" and what that means is "finding some way to do it without losing the forks".
I have tried Brave. I have many bookmarks, and it does not handle bookmarks well.
I use pi hole on my network, so I am not so concerned with advertising and tracking per se, because I can block a lot of that at the DNS level, but it is hard to find a browser put out by people that even give lip service to security and privacy.
DNS blockers will become irrelevent when ads are served as first-parties on sites, which goes hand-in-hand with googles MV3 and Shadow/DOM push. As well as PWA's. Just a PSA ;)
Adblocking is already a massive nuisance on Twitch and they are essentially serving their own ads, for me the only thing that works is a chrome extension in Brave, same extension fails to work in Chrome.