Tired of alternative desktop browsers, thinking of switching to Google Chrome - need advice

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@Lukas

All of the hate is based on biases and ideologies

The hatred of anything at all inherently and inevitably stems from bias and ideologies, but here are a couple of points against Brave that I would consider more “objective”:

Brave vs Trivalent Security

Re-enabling anarchic extension permissions, aka MV2 . If Android allowed all apps all permissions, with no mechanism to set granular permissions on a per-app basis, no one in privacy spaces would be using Android. Yet for some reason, browsers get a pass when it comes to doing the same for extensions. Shipping an official flatpak, which they accomplish using zypak, which is both no longer maintained and a hack that replaces the layer 1 component of the otherwise robust chromium sa…

@Lukas

hate something just because of crypto

Brave defaults to cryptocurrency that is significantly less private than would be expected for a privacy browser, so I believe that would be objectively bad to have for a privacy browser.

(Also, in my experience, Brave crashes a lot on mobile)