@Korth wrote:
Chrome is the most popular browser, but google's marketing, spyware, telemetry, tracking, and privacy invasions are evil.
Firefox used to be good about privacy, but not anymore, times have changed.
Both used to be snappy and lightweight, both are now sluggish and bloated.
And both have a tendency to autoupdate (even if explicitly configured to never update, never check for updates, never nag about updates) so what works today will sometimes change or break tomorrow.
Safari is probably the best choice on iOS devices. Although Apple is only marginally less greedy and evil than google.
But some of the chromium-based browsers are good, especially if pure opensource and non-commercial. I currently like Brave, it has built-in adblocks and scriptblocks which work fairly well (I haven't seen a popup, popunder, window hijack, or YouTube ad in ages). It's also fully compatible with all the usual (and many unusual) audio/video codecs, office document viewing, pdf viewing, etc. You can't really get any better on a mobile device (unless you root).
I won't use Chrome because Google.
I use Firefox because it seems to do the job but skeptical of Mozilla.
I won't use Opera because I don't like the design nor how slow it is.
I've heard of Brave, Opera, Maxthon and some others; most of the not so popular browsers including Brave and Opera use the Chromium-engine which likely means they have some connection or association with Google whether directly or indirectly.
I'm not really looking to avoid Google. I know I can't. Google has trackers built into at least 75% of the most popular websites, probably this one (I wouldn't be surprised). But I'd rather use a different browser than Google's.
I won't use Safari because in order to block ads one must pay a subscription to an app called Guardian or something and to hell with that. The day I start paying to remove ads is the day I start using Chrome and say hello to Google.
At the end of the day, our data feeds somewhere. It's inevitable nowadays.
