What's you're browser setup and why? Leave a comment here, and if you're looking for the best overall alternative to Chrome, I recommend Brave (it's free, this is not sponsored): www.brave.com
I can’t get enough of the Brave browser. It’s also important to note how Brave generates revenue. They also show ads, but they are not targeted and the user can choose how many ads are allowed to show per hour. However, the more ads you allow, the more revenue Brave passes onto you as crypto currency. It’s honestly the coolest piece of software I daily drive.
Brave is my main browser, but on iOS I’m now using Orion which is like Brave is to Chrome. It’s based on Safari with apple stuff removed. There is a macOS version of Orion but I’ve had some issues with it so still use Brave there for now.
@Shizune Hakamichi not true. Brave has ties to Google removed. Also blocks some ads and pop ups on install by default. Latest version also will auto answer the “do you want to accept cookies for this site” if you chose for it to do so. So no, while Brave is built off of Chromium, it’s not the same, and offers better protection out of the box. Is it perfect, no, but it’s safer to use than Chrome for the average user
Thanks for the heads up. I've been lazy about switching from chrome for a while now but this was a good reminder to get it done sooner than later. I'm not really super paranoid about the info Google has on me but I don't like the idea of relying on one company for EVERYTHING in my life.
I moved to edge after exclusively using Chrome for two years,most of life used Firefox & internet explorer Used netscape before Firefox & XP era when internet explorer used to hang up pc
Brave has been caught redirecting website addresses so that they can insert their own affiliate code. You gotta hand it to them. Promoting yourself as a security company whilst hijacking your user's browser is some scam.
This channel is a godsend. I *just* found it and I was thinking this morning about switching to a different browser. Then I check and-bam! This video was uploaded 30 minutes ago!
Don't listen to this video honestly. Everything except Firefox and Safari are based on Chromium. As such, if you're intending on switching off Chrome, the only options are those two.
@@zigzagintrusion There are two main reasons I'm starting to move away from anything Google in my life. Firstly, privacy. It's become more and more apparent that the most important thing to Google is user metrics and selling that data. So if you care about your internet footprint even a little, I'd recommend looking else where. Second, this is conjecture on my part, but I'd imagine that most of Google's profits are coming from ad revenue, and as such, they're starting to push towards an internet that has a ton of ads. I.E, look into Manifest V3, which is set to come out in January. In essence, they're heavily kneecapping the support for ad blockers and add-on support in general. Which, to me are absolutely vital to traverse the web at all at this point. That's why the only options are Firefox and Safari, because all other browsers are about to lose a significant amount of control with the reduction of developer functions in the new Manifest V3 landscape. Not just for ad blockers. I'm interested to hear that you found Firefox was slow! As a developer that cares a lot about getting the best experience, I just switched over a couple of months ago, and I've been monitoring my performance with it, and I've only been *more* happy with it than Chrome. I've found that generally the RAM usage is reduced, and everything feels more snappy. I would have this terrible thing with Chrome where once the browser was running for about a week, scrolling through a webpage would have massive framerate lag. That hasn't happened with Firefox yet.
@@LunarUmi Yeah, Google products have been turning me off more and more. Admittedly, I did not use Firefox for very long, but webpages took a few seconds longer to load than Chrome. A few seconds isn't a lot, but I am super impatient so it was bothering me. One of the main reasons I disliked Firefox was because certain websites didn't function properly. The only example I can think of right now is Reddit, and to be fair, I think that's an issue on Reddit's part, but it was still a bit annoying. After reading your comment, I think I'll go ahead and try it again. Maybe my internet was just having a bad day.
I use firefox brave vivaldi and edge. I just like how each browser looks and vivaldi has some of the best customization with themes or any browser I have used but I use firefox as my main browser to just support them in the browser market and firefox is a really good browser now it is slightly slower than brave and edge but I can deal with that.
One thing I need that Chrome has is the ability to see my other devices history from any of my devices. This allows me to move seamlessly between my phone(s) and computer(s). Yes I have multiple of both. Are the other browsers that can do that? I have not seen a way to do that with other browsers.
Brave has a sync feature, which is encrypted. I use it on all my devices, my windows pc, android phone, and apple ipad. As far as I know, it's the best privacy browser with private sync, although I only use it to sync bookmarks and open tabs, I never save any of my passwords in my browser, I use keepassxc, a real password manager.
I use Firefox and Brave and they are both faster than Chrome and use much less resources of my system. Not to mention much MUCH better privacy with Firefox.
On what planet is Firefox & Brave are "faster" than Chrome? 🐸 You can say they're "fast". But not faster than chrome. I have a 2GB/s internet connection and if you only care about speed, chrome is still the king.
I’ve been using Firefox almost exclusively since forever and never thought of switching to Chrome. Although I love the Google Suite and can’t imagine work without it.
I'm currently using Chromium as my default browser. There is nothing much to say about it, but when it comes to privacy or something related, I just wanna say that remember to learn how to browse safely aswell, not just rely on other browsers that said to be "Secure, Effective, Private or Ditching Big Tech". You can definitely do something to improve your browsing experience like installing essential extensions like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger, just notice that only "changing browser" doesn't really change that much.
I don't use chrome, but that's one thing people don't get. Your stuff is only as safe as you allow it to be. Your house can have all of the security features in the world, but if you're just leaving your doors or windows open, it isn't the house's fault. You brought a good point up 👍🏻
Brave is great, however it consumes more RAM, even with the same number of tabs open in other browsers. Apart on that, it is really fast. Congratulations for your excellent content!
Literalmente, solo con abrir 4 pestañas de RU-vid consume aproximadamente 2 GB de RAM. Aunque, depende del procesador, el cual dilimita dicho apartado.
chrome is the only thing that works good on both mac and iphone. There is no other browser that I have tried that have a built in password manager and sync tabs and bookmarks without problems
I currently use Firefox and Chrome, depending on what I'm doing. I have long wanted to cut back on or eliminate Chrome, so I found this video very helpful. Thank-you.
i primary use edge because i love the features and feal of the browser i prefer Microsoft haveing my nformation over Google idk i have always loved Microsoft
I switched to Firefox about half a year ago and i just love it. Firefox Sync is very useful and there are plenty of great add-ons, and the newly implemented Enhanced Tracking Protection is also great. And after all Mozilla is a reputable community/non-profit company that promotes an open and secure web.
I'm a regular Firefox user, but for websites that don't work in Firefox, I use MS Edge as my Chromium browser. I have a variety of adblock and tracker-block extensions on both.
My main browser has always been Firefox and then Brave, this was infromative and helped me feel better. Firefox has its quirks but after using it since inception i don't think i will change, it works and i am better for it.
I remember testing speed of Opera Edge and Firefox compared to chrome and i was surprised that all of them were better and edge had very stable speed Edit: the difference were just around 10-80kb/s on avarage and 2yr ago
For my laptop, I mainly use Brave now and sometimes Firefox. As for my phones, I still use Samsung's Internet browser with an adblocker but I also have Duckduckgo.
I've been using firefox since it came out, and I remember people saying that chrome was better. They may had been right at the time, I don't know. But anyone saying it now are attempting to use their posterior to simulate vocal apparatus..
I've tried many browsers. But none of them could meet my requirements. Firefox freezes my laptop as soon as I open Facebook. This shouldn't happen with any browser. So I chose Google Chrome. This also has the function of synchronization. This is important in case I need to reset my laptop to avoid losing my settings. Google Chrome is the fastest on my laptop. Pages also load much faster. Conclusion: I am completely satisfied with Google Chrome. I won't let myself change my mind, or talk me into anything else in any way.
After watching the video I'm a bit confused. You said your intent was to convince us to stop using Chrome and yet you gave us not a single reason for doing so. Yes, you explained some of the great security of other browsers but you never did a comparison to Chrome.
@@LegendaryITA Yes, it uses more RAM than other browsers, but RAM is cheap. Even if you have only 16GB, is it not a problem in most situations. I have Chrome open now with 10 tabs and am using 2.8GB.
I stopped using chrome ages ago as my main browser, I now use Vivaldi. I like the setup, syncing of tabs & settings etc and I can have my tabs down the side rather than along the top. Few videos like this one I've seen never seem to mention the browser... not sure why. not looked at brave, so might give that a gander.
I mainly use Firefox for multi container feature and privacy, and sometimes use brave for speed and compatibility. I wish I could use only Firefox for everything, but Firefox sometimes glitches and stops working on a few websites.
Librewolf for windows Brave/Firefox for Android And yes... That includes losing data syncing capability between devices but i think not syncing the browser would be a good privacy practice and if you really care about your privacy and don't want to lose syncing in both browser then you better host your own passwords, bookmarks, history and other stuff.
I use Orion by kagi, it's still in beta but it works very good. It's webkit based and it comes with all the privacy settings you need and it also supports chrome and firefox extensions!
Librewolf + adblock makes the firefox framework actually good, brave makes the chrome base actually as good as normies think chrome is, they're both the best browsers with their respective code bases.
I have three browsers on my device. 1. Vivaldi - This is what I use for work. I find it fast, secure, and easy to use, even if it looks convoluted if you are not a power user (which I am). 2. Firefox - For personal use. I used Pale Moon before, but I found no reason to stick to it. Firefox renders pages better, and I like using it instead of Chrome. 3. Edge - I can't delete it...
Ummm Brave, Edge, Chromium, and many browsers based on Chrome. So they can still track your stuff. Mozilla is best bet, unless they switched to chrome based browser too lol.
It's a shame that Brave doesn't have tab sorting or mouse gestures natively and you would have to use extensions for that which want to see which pages you visit. Which would defeat the purpose of using brave in the first place.
Since 1994, I've been using Netscape, then SeaMonkey, then Firefox (I still miss tabs below the address bar, they DON'T belong above it, sorry, all these years later since Firefox deprecated XUL and prevented tabs from being moved below the address bar without jumping through hoops every few updates, It still frustrates me every day). I HIGHLY recommend Firefox to my clients. As for it's supposed lack of privacy settings, it's far better than Chrome or Edge, and probably Safari as well. As for Brave, the company behind it and it's founder especially have had controversies that call into question whether the browser actually does what it says. Unless you have something to hide, I have not seen a reason for hardening Firefox beyond its defaults, and actually haven't seen or heard of the hardening guides mentioned. Perhaps a more in-depth video on this would be in order. Also running Firefox on Android, probably the first download from the ay Store I made on day one with Android (switched when my BB Passport died, maybe 5 years ago). I'm also surprised Brave supports the Tor network since the Tor Browser is based on Firefox.
The main reason why I feel difficult to migrate is because the Google Password Manager seems to be the most convenient to me. I did try migrating all the passwords to Lastpass (and yeah I do have Lastpass premium) but still I felt that the Android app for Lastpass wasn't still that good. I had to manually copy the password from vault. This makes me wanna ponder upon how I can migrate.
I'm using 1password right now an it's been pretty flawless so far. There is the odd time where you have to copy it manually but most of the time it autofills everything, including 2fa codes. And it has the option of importing all of your data from another password manager too. Lmk if you have any other questions tho :)
I've been using Slimjet, a really cool rather lightweight and fast chrome-based browser that has a really fast built-in download manager, and a youtube downloader, among other useful features.
👍🏻 my setup firefox with increased privacy settings like https only mode , strict mode , block cookies , don’t save & auto clear history , always open private window , etc couple of extensions ublock origin , privacy badger , container etc
Glad i found your Channel !!! I've been upgrading my privacy and security on my computer lately and am learning to use Linux for that reason. BTW I use librewolf or TOR
I use a niche browser called falkon for watching videos (like youtube) and firefox for everything else falkon is super lightweight and can even lighten the load of the heaviest websites like youtube and firefox has all the modern JS features that allow a modern website to work properly
Nothing beats thorium browser, using it on an old 2gb ram window 7 laptop(32bit) ,i have 8 tabs open only using 1.12g of ram and its pretty fast, i cannot believe this. I did switch off most background shit running in services but it was sruggling with brave. And then i found Thorium ... i can play 1080 movies no sweat, using wifi, on chrome i was getting only 25 mbps , with brave i was gettin abot 30 to 35ish mbps, iget a decent 78 mbps on Thorium ..thats insane, im going to keep using brave on my new laptop which have 8gb ram but use Thorium on this one. Im honestly blown away...Edge works fast on my other laptop too but i think Thorium is faster , judging by its performance on an old laptop with window 7 32bit. I was about to install a lite linux distro on it, but il leave it for now..also deleting chrome completely but carried my bookmarks accross which is very is.
I currently use a mix of MS Edge and Brave. Edge for their features and Brave for privacy. I've always been a PC guy who uses Google Chrome. However, Google disabling ad blockers motivated me to switch.
Hey Josh, I'm using 1Password like you suggest. It only shows a chrome extension on my account under the downloads page. What do you suggest? Also, is the only reason to switch from chrome is cuz 'big brother' is watching? Or are there any security risks associated as well? Thanks :)
I thought you were going to give me reasons to stop using Chrome. The answer is that I can't fine tune the security and Chrome does ad tracking. So? Someone knows what web sites I visit, can sell details of my browsing and can target ads directly back to me. If you're tracking me as a single person, then I have a problem with that. If I'm 1 out of billions of users, then my browsing history is nothing more than a statistic. You failed to convince me that it's bad. And if you just throw generic terms like 'privacy' and 'security' but you don't provide details how this can harm me then your just another alarmist--there are too many alarmists out there and there's so much of it, it's simply white noise.
Saying a Browser is "Free To Download" is just a dumb thing, Chrome is also free, but you still but a big Box named "Free To Download" just to make Brave look better
love brave but the last time used it which is a month or so ago it became slow to almost unresponsive. i tried looking for solutions in forums and other places but there seems to be none yet. found a lot of other users with the same problem and they also came to a dead end. so i had to look for another browser
I had Brave until my insulin pump said it on runs on Chrome, so I had to switch back. Aloha isn't bad. Until I find out how to run it on Chrome in the background, I guess I'm stuck.
I can’t do video calls with Brave. Why? I have to uninstall the app to use my video call features. I can’t find a way to fix this. My phones battery dies fast with Brave. I wish they’d fix that too.
All this trouble is futile. It doesn't matter what you you use. If you use any tech, especially cell phone. your data is already scattered everywhere. All this just gives you a false sense of privacy/security for a lot more hassle.
Tanto brave como librewolf son buenos con respecto a la privacidad. Aunque, el plus de brave es su adblock integrado, ademas se pueden complementar con bloqueadores de anuncios (ublock origin, el más eficiente en recursos y en su propósito).
Did you turn off Brave Analytics P3A that tracks where you go and how long you stay on a site ??? Also I turned off daily ping to Brave.I also like slimjet browser and use TinyWall Free 2 way Firewall..Also like Wise Cleaner on normal mode but added cookies to get rid of junk files.👍👍👍Use Brave also.
Thanks for the tips! As I said in the video, I think it's wise to always go through the security/privacy settings of whichever browser you use to turn off those odd settings.
On Mac and on Phone it is Duck Duck Go (Because of ad and tracker blockers and most of the common Web API allowed in chrome will not even work in Duck Duck Go), on Windows, it is Brave (because no version of Duck Duck Go on Windows found).
I use edge but google still recommends chrome. I hate that pop up!!! Very annoying and don't know how to stop it permanently. Is there a way to stop it?
@@AllThingsSecurednot for people who try to reason rationally, objectively, and impartially. It seems to me that you have taken a very important second step in motivating people to leave chrome, but missed the equally important first step of explaining what is wrong. p.s. this may sound a bit aggressive, but I'm not putting a negative spin on it. I'm very grateful for the content you make!
I tried to go to Firefox and found it pretty user-friendly - HOWEVER - I ran into a glitz that I couldn't overcome, and it's a matter of how I like to keep my desktop and files. I like to use icons and even create icons for some of my unusual files. Such as a Christmas Music File that I make my own ICONS to identify songs in a shortcut from my desktop. With Firefox, the icons I have made or downloaded from a free ICO site are covered with the Firefox logo. That defeats the method I like, and I can't find a way to get the ICO I made to appear. So I have returned to Google I know that sounds a bit goofy, but it's what I like to do.
Great video, I have been using Firefox as a default for years with Brave as a backup. Recently I reinstalled Chrome, (NOT default) back because the family wanted to do a video chat on Facebook Messenger on my laptop so we could all fit in the video frame vs a phone...the only browsers that supports this feature are Chrome, MS Edge and Opera....try a VPN with no logging also, but be careful which one you choose!
Les autres navigateurs sont (entre autres) beaucoup moins rapides y compris ceux issus de Chromium. Si les gens utilisent Chrome, ce n'est pas forcément parce qu'ils sont complètement idiots, il y a des raisons !
My setup is similar, but I use Bromite instead of Brave. Why? Brave has some coin thing, some social responsibility thing that I have no time for. Bromite has none of that. Further, I can't find a checklist or tutorial to systematically walk me through the process of cleaning up Brave. So, ... Granted, Bromite can be a bit slow on the updates.
@@AllThingsSecured: I just checked a review of all the Brave settings that needed to be changed for privacy & usability. The list was long. Got no time for that. (Just me.)
Josh - keep in mind that many of your subscribers use only mobile phones. The android version of Brave will not import bookmarks at all. I haven't found a way to add extensions such as the DRM extension either. Any ideas?
@@zapeleon I just looked again and I didn't find it. Can you tell me where to look and what exactly it's called? I'm using Brave 1.45.127 and Android 12 on a Samsung Galaxy A42
