Whenever I see Brave as part of the list of browsers people recommend, I know it's astroturfed.
Because every time someone calls it out, there's an immediate reply of "Oh yeah you can turn off the crypto mining" or whatever security issue there is.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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All info on that site is several years stale and the site itself is unmaintained (last update 2022; git repo permanently archived 2024). Many of the details are not reflecting current state of things and this page is not a good resource for comparing browsers in 2026 (except as inspiration for replicating their methodology^1^).
Konform Browser is to my knowledge the only up-to-date webextension-capable browser today with literally 0 phone-home / background connections under defaults, and no telemetry or other superfluous undesired activity ever. (disclaimer: am dev. I'm certain it would be ranking as top if such a ranking was made today. Come @ me ;))
^1^: Separately recently published container-based flow for doing this kind of analysis and doing similar comparison. There are some basic results and comparison included in readme but would be cool to see someone take it to the next step, drill deeper, share more exhaustive and educative results, present it in a format more digestible for non-techies (whether using this setup or something different).
Off to uninstall zen!
Yes there is a fox reference in the name so it's still carrying the legacy
To be fair, it has the same rating as Firefox. Though because of the URL hijacking scandal alone, Brave should NOT be trusted.
Firefox got the same rating, and this was before they added FakeSpot, an ad network, and everything they advertised as AI.
list of other browsers:
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/
+1 for librewolf, been using it a while and it works perfectly
i also get a "strong protection against Web tracking" result from EFF's cover your tracks browser test, using librewolf
I get that too but my fingerprint is unique, which is not ideal?
I understand that's very difficult to address.
Yeah, you shouldn’t be using that either.
So... What should we be using, I use fennec and Firefox with a lot of modification
What android browser yall using? I've been using waterfox but was using Brave till there CEO said soon pro-Trump stuff a while back.
Side note: this will be my last Android phone, plan on switching to the fairphone or a graphine pixel after this one.
Ironfox
BTW grapheme is announcing a partnership with a non-Google phone company soon, keep an eye out
I'm keeping both eyes out for weeks since I first read it. I hope they hurry up.
Fennec F-Droid
Testing, thanks 💖
TIL neocities is a thing
It’s a neat little corner of the web. Reminds me of the 90s-00s web
I've got one myself and can say that it is definitely fun and worth the $5 I put to it every month. :)
It was literally last updated in 2021 lol.
No.