I am enjoying using Brave as my primary browser. In fact, I have four browsers installed (in order of usage from highest to lowest):
- Brave - Recently began using it. I like the fact it is based off of Chromium so it has a wide range of compatibility with existing extensions and websites
- Firefox - My previous main browser but I found that a handful of websites would break. Perhaps it's because of conflicts with my extensions, but I like using many of the privacy enhancing extensions that are available. Not being owned by a giant tech company gives it extra points
- Chrome - I mainly use this when reading news articles because of this extension which bypasses paywalls
- Internet Explorer - Mainly used to confirm a broken website. In very rare cases my Brave extensions break a website and I use IE to validate that the website is indeed not working and that it's not on my end
The extensions that I use in Brave are (in no particular order):
- Bitwarden - Password manager. I migrated from LassPass when they raised their price and reduced features for the free tier. I pay Bitwarden $10 / year to support app development but they also offer a very feature rich free option that I highly encourage everyone to use
- ClearURLs - Cuts the tracker clutter in URLs
- Google Dictionary
- Google Translate
- Imagus - As a Redditor, this is a must have. Enlarges images so you don't need to click links, just hover over links
- OneTab - I love opening lots of tabs. This is a life saver. You can also share a group of tabs via a link to others
- PixelBlock - Supposedly blocks "read receipts" in Gmail
- Privacy Badger - Created by EFF to reduce online trackers
- Pocket - Great to save websites for later and read either on your phone, tablet or Kobo
- uBlock Origin - I think everyone needs this. Very effective ad blocker
- Ugly Email - Also blocks read receipts in Gmail, but catches trackers that PixelBlock doesn't