Is Brave a good alternative to Chrome?

 People may hate me, but I have to say it: Both are good. When it comes to ad-blocking Brave is the go for browsing. I’ve been using Brave for about two years (until I switched to Ubuntu the last month), and is somewhat faster than Chrome. Moreover, my laptop doesn’t turn into a Pop-Tarts toaster by just opening the browser. However, Brave is not all good, because it so happens that Brave is a fork from Chrome, so, you’re essentially using Chrome with a built-in ad-blocker that has a lion as icon and runs faster (because it blocks ads). More or less Chrome is still a descent browser, I don’t mind much about the data they collect. Is still usable as default, and sometimes it runs perfectly fine. I would just appreciate it more if Google bothered to optimize Chrome’s speed.

Now, Brave is not the only browser I would recommend. Right now, I am running Mozilla Firefox on Linux (Ubuntu [Bionic Beaver]). Why? Well, aside the fact that I was too lazy to download Brave, Mozilla on Linux runs incredibly smooth. Smoother than Brave (on Windows of course!). Moreover, on Windows I also would recommend Opera, which has a nice dock for those who want to stay organized (or are too lazy to scroll over the options from the tab bar).

“Ok, cool, nice, now can you please decide on which browser I should go?”, you may be asking. Well… I can’t perform a recommendation. This actually depends on how would you utilize your browser. Chrome is for Windows defaults (aside of Edge), Brave is for ad-block, Firefox is for Linux default, Opera is for that sweet-sweet dock with its built-in VPN you may responsibly use, and so on. I use Mozilla because I’m too lazy to switch and Mozilla runs well for me, but maybe you (the handsome looking reader) might have other needs that a browser that is not Firefox could suffice. So yeah, pick your flavor. Except Explorer!, J-just ditch that, it barely works and doesn’t even have good extensions (if it has extensions).