@ifixcoinops I used to use brave as a chrome alternative for when i needed chromium stuff until i found out what the CEO was about
And then i found out about vivaldi, which is (sadly) chromium based, but it's run by one of the OG Opera folks and is... quiet?
Like, it gets development, but so far the team has been vocally against shoving LLMs into the browser ( https://vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-browsers-the-price-of-admission-is-too-high/ ) has a inbuilt adblocker, and no crypto. I think there's a VPN that i saw offered at one point but I dismissed it months ago and I can't find it easily now?
But it's also been super nice for wrangling my three billion tabs, the session manager has been nice, the mobile app has been consistent, and so far ive not heard of any dramas about the people running it.
It also seems to go under the radar of many but ive been quite enjoying it.
(tho if anyone knows of any problems PLEASE do let me know >.< )
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