YouTube isn't going anywhere, and my phone is an Android, but I can change other stuff. And a big thing has been just wanting to reduce just how much google I use. I got a lot of my privacy info from the Linux experiment on YouTube and actually share quite a few of those sentiments. I just want something that protects me from malware and hacks, and I've heard that even if you won't swear off of big tech entirely, it's at least good to vary up your services so you don't have everything on the same (usually google) servers. Like I'm not a tor as main browser and running a VPN 247. And it seems that privacy is largely a balancing act of priorities. From other commenters it seems that the consensus is that ungoogled chromium should perform very well. That seems to have a pretty strong bias towards brave. I don't agree with Eich and even boycotted Brave for a long time, but am beginning to be ok with using it on side pcs, given that Vivaldi isn't in many package managers (pretty sure it isn't in apt, snap, or flatpak) to my knowledge.

Now there is the elephant of the situation of the controversies surrounding Brendan Eich. Also, in addition to having duckduckgo and I'd assume being able to add startpage, they have their own search engine. They block ads and trackers by default, its not even an opt in, and to my knowledge don't have a hardware identifier tracking user count. While they do have privacy focused search engines like duckduckgo and startpage as options, they make bing the default.īrave. But they don't collect any ad data or run other telemetry, and block ads and trackers if you opt into those on the app, so they seem quite respecting of privacy. I've used them side by side and have seen that they do a lot of the same stuff, and even look similar.įor Vivaldi, it is known that they keep an accurate count of how many users are, which involves a hardware identifier. These are the 2 browsers that often heavily push how they don't track you and even block trackers.

Vivaldi vs brave