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Is firefox with ublock or brave better in terms of resource consumption? (self.firefox)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by first_ad4972 to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] first_ad4972 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what if I don’t log in when I use brave? Then it would have no way to get money from me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think they can't earn money from users that are not logged in? Sweet summer child.

They will still show ads on the search page. The dirty affiliate redirects they will think off will still work in their browser. You are effectivly using a software platform they have total control over. Offcourse they are going to find ways to earn money.

It's like saying Facebook can't track me because I'm not logged in. Or Google Ads don't earn money from me because I'm not logged in.

[–] first_ad4972 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t use the brave search engine (I’ve always been using ecosia) and just use it as a pure browser, would that be fine?