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I'm choosing a main browser, and I think that firefox with ublock and brave are probably equally good in terms of privacy and security, both of them look quite nice, and both are FOSS. The final thing that I'm considering is resource consumption. This reddit post shows that firefox is better than brave in benchmarks and ram consumption, but what about when firefox has ublock running and brave has all their preinstalled "extension" like brave rewards and wallet disabled (except brave shields is left enabled)?

Edit: some people are mentioning brave's cryptocurrency. I don't want to use that, and I would just turn it off and use brave as an improved chrome.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave still doesn’t have your best interests in mind. They’re a for profit company. They’ll eventually drop the crypto garbage because it’s worthless anyway, but rest assured they’ll attempt some other way to wrangle money out of you and it probably won’t be good.

Again: just use Firefox! It’s the opposite of all of that.

[–] nitefox 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminder that stock firefox is less privacy-oriented than Brave and they use Google as the default search engine

[–] first_ad4972 11 points 1 year ago

I know that. In the title I said that I’m comparing brave to Firefox with ublock