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If you don’t care abt browser philosophy or whatever, Brave Browser. The search engine and ad blocking is one of the best things out there rn. Yes it’s a chromium based browser, but it is way better than using chrome or edge.
Embrace Zen
Excellent reason for even the normies to ditch chrome 🥂
Laughs in Firefox based browsers
Don't worry, there's still hope: use Librewolf or Brave
Helium is a Chromium based browser that will still support ad blockers, whose devs (unlile the CEO of Brave) seem like good peeps - https://helium.computer/
Besides Librewolf, Waterfox is also a good Firefox/Gecko basd option - https://waterfox.com/
+1 for librewolf as an actually privacy focused and hardened browser, waterfox as a bullshit-free "just works" browser
Don't use brave, Peter Thiel funded that
I use LibreWolf :)
Chrome-based browsers don't block that well in my experience but there's system-wide options like Portmaster or the good old hosts file
hosts file
Ew, it's 2026, spin up a pi-hole and protect all your clients :p I wouldn't want to maintain the 1.3M domains in my blocklist by hand
Its all good! Someone has maintained it for you! https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist
For local networks maybe, but I don't just use my laptop/phone at home
Or Firefox.
Exactly!
Zen and Vivaldi for me is the combo.
Firefox+uBO works fine. Brave shields works fine.
Zen has been pretty great so far
Good bye to Chrome it is then. I made the switch as soon as they started messing
I just got a notification today, that I can not continue using my banking app on my phone without first registering with the government.... dark days for privacy.
Firefox and its derivatives (and Safari - sorry Apple users) are the only browsers not using Google's Blink web engine these days - at least until Ladybird is released.
Despite the Mozilla Foundation's many stupid decisions, Firefox (and Safari) is starting to look like the only thing stopping Google from completely controlling the internet.
God I hope Ladybird will work. I'm so done with Google. And the fact that Firefox is dependant on their money leaves a bad aftertaste, everytime I open a browser. Even though I use Zen.
Fingers crossed for Ladybird and a stable Alpha release in 2026 🤞
