Brave is certainly worth considering. It was established by Brendan Eich, inventor of Javascript (over a weekend IIRC), long-term CTO and briefly CEO of Mozilla (before being ousted for his personal views - an astonishing situation when viewed from the rest of the world). Which emphasises, IMO, that you should take into account (prioritise even) the ownership and business objectives of software developers, not just if you like the look of their products. Meanwhile, a story today is that Google has rejected the advice of Apple and Mozilla, and loosened security in Chrome to accommodate Microsoft: Google Chrome 97 relaxes privacy protection just a little to help out Microsoft Edge (and Brave) is now based on Chrome, software controlled by Google. And their priority is? That's right, advertising. Privacy? Not so much. Mozilla, the only other browser builder, is in a difficult place, being dependent for their operational costs, on the deal with Google to use their search engine by default. (You can change it, though). Mozilla is, of course, a non-profit organisation.
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