I've looked at using brave instead of Firefox because I'd install fewer extensions to get what I want in terms of ad blocking and privacy. Fewer extensions is a regular goal of mine. That said, Brave isn't quite there yet for me on the desktop but based on the roadmap, I'll be checking it out again in a few months. In the meantime, Brave is my primary mobile browser.

Brave decided to protect users by default from privacy concerns, it may not be perfect, I'm going to give it a go and see.

Firefox offers various privacy features (check about:config), but they're opt-in and typically have a bar to entry for users to be willing to change settings and know what they will do.

Mozilla might claim to care about privacy, but by not clamping down on third party content and referers, it left most of its userbase in the position of having their privacy invaded by default when using their product. If you care about privacy you fix that, they didn't.

The built in ad-blocking is more performant, it’s based on chromium, so compatibility with some marginal sites. Other than that they’re pretty comparable. Brave has some crypto-related compensation scheme for websites but it’s completely opt-in and optional.

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