[redrix]

Brave is great, but I just wish it wasn’t Chromium based.

It’s always been ironic to me that a Privacy browser is dependent on source code primarily controlled by a company that derives the majority of its revenue from ads… exactly what the browser itself was spun off to shield its users against.

[charcircuit]

The majority of Mozilla and Apple's revenue for their browsers comes from ad revenue sharing agreements.

[bluecalm]

I tried using Firefox. I had it as default browser for 2 years but I just keep going back to Chromium. Firefox is slow and crashes/hangs too much in my experience. It was even very slow to open my automatically generated tables for accounting (for simple html but very big files because accounting regulation in my previous country of residence were brain dead). I don't think often published benchmarks tell the whole story there.

Now I am back to Brave and very happy. Almost no ads, super fast, doesn't crash or hang.

[schubidubiduba]

I tried using Brave. It weirded me out with the crypto stuff and random popups. Now back to Firefox, on all my devices, without any crashes ever. And it's just as fast as chromium, which I very very rarely use for bad websites that do not work with Firefox.