Brave is currently shitting the bed on me in what I fear is not an April Fool's joke, so I'm soliciting opinions. What browsers are you all using? What do you trust to not spy on you? Which browsers aren't thoroughly infected with ideological rot?
Obviously Google Chrome is a poisoned well, but are there any out there that pass muster?
My browser progression goes thus:
Firefox for many years, from beta 0.71 when it was called FIrebird right up until the Mozilla board fired Brandan Eich. Switched instantly to Pale Moon.
Pale Moon for years, until Pale Moon evolved past the point where it can use Firefox plug ins. Set about for a replacement, settled on Waterfox.
Waterfox for a few more years, until YouTube started their jihad vs ad block last year. Started to use Brave, but kept Waterfox installed. Still using both.
How is Waterfox on the adblocking front? You mention that you switched right as YouTube started making that harder, so I'm curious to know if there's any appreciable difference in adblock on that vs Brave's built in adblock.
Brave is managing to stay ahead of YT for the most part. I refuse to turn off addblock plus for any reason when I use waterfox.
Are you using uBlock Origin? I haven't had any issues with YouTube since the early days of their war against ad blockers with that extension enabled.
No, adblock plus. I used uBlock origin with PaleMoon, since they made a version just for that browser.