I am boycotting brave because of its sizeable amount of controversies and because it is American. I have decided to swap to Vivaldi but I have noticed a significant performance decrease on Speedometer 3.1 Benchmarks. Furthermore, according to EFF Cover my Tracks I now have a unique finger print and am easier to track.
My setup consists of using uBlock Origin (normal not lite) instead of Vivaldi’s built in tracker & ad blocker.
It’s not Vivaldi, but it’s not based in America and has a lot of privacy by default and there’s even more you can add on about:config and some extensions. Waterfox is fast secure and more customizable as it’s based on the Gecko engine. Which I think Vivaldi once used but I’m not 💯 on that.
https://github.com/BrowserWorks/Waterfox
https://waterfox.net/support/content-blocking/
I can’t link the Security tab in their docs but above is the second link in the directory. You can add ublock origin and set useragent as well.
Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to the version of Opera that ran on the Presto engine, including some of the key people from back then. It has always run on Chromium with all of the baggage that comes with that. Manifest 3 and difficulty blicking autoplay videos without an extension for example.
It is possible that OP needs Chromium for some reason like sites restricting access to other browsers either intentionally, or due to incompetence. I’ve personally never been able to get any Firefox derivative to have anywhere close to as good of a user experience as out of the box Vivaldi despite my trying, though I can’t speak to Brave’s UX.
I might have to give Waterfox a try, though. Is there any word on how up to date they are with security updates, since derivative browsers tend to lack the resources to not lag behind?
Waterfox has given me zero issues, I use the useragent setting to present as chrome. There is no issue with blocking when this is done in my experience.
waterfox is not even faster than firefox.