This is a bit of a different request. To cut the story short, as part of my day job I have to research ads that people who do digital advertising post on YouTube, Google, Bing, and so on. I click those ads, see how they load, their content, etc.
This all means that, for my professional life, I require a browser that tracks me to some extent, doesn’t block ads, is secure and loads pages properly, and ideally is very fast loading pages. Currently, I use Thorium, and I’m quite happy with how it works, but frankly I’m concerned it might not be the most secure browser considering it’s maintained by one developer only. Vanilla Firefox commonly breaks webpages, and I’m unable to analyse the webpage the ad leads to properly.
So I come to you for recommendations you might have that might fulfil my criteria. I suppose the obvious answer is, “just install Chrome, then.” but I thought I’d ask for your wisdom before settling on it.
I think specifically for this testing of ads you should use Chrome or maybe Edge with their default settings as that will give you the closest experience to most people will get. However, you should then use another browser for the rest of your work to compartmentalize. You should only be exposed in that way when you are testing, not for your day-to-day work. Brave or Firefox are good options as your main, non-testing browser.