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A while back I wrote an article about Microsoft’s new browser Edge, which I invited you to try. But a new study on privacy ranks that browser dead last… which is convenient, because if you read my article all the way to the end, I also recommended Brave — which comes in first in that same study.
On Mac, if you’re used to Chrome you won’t feel lost! That makes sense — it’s based on Chromium and gives you access to the same extensions.
Its only weak spot right now is sync, particularly for extensions. If you use it in two different places, know that syncing them isn’t possible. That’s not necessarily a big deal, it seems to me.
Similarly, password sync doesn’t work — and I’d advise against using that feature built into the browser anyway. Prefer services like Bitwarden .
Contrary to Firefox, Brave is compatible with Apple’s Touch Bar, which handles autocorrect — a feature that alone justifies buying a Touch Bar model.
I do miss Firefox for its Container feature, which lets you browse by service without those services talking to each other. For example, you can be logged into Google in one container and not in another. So when you search in the container where you’re not logged in, you’re unknown to Google.
Brave, on iOS, uses an ad blocker just like on Mac — a real plus, since Apple reserves that functionality for its own browser… It seems to block YouTube ads too 🙌.
There are genuinely a lot of bugs in Safari on Mac that I find unbearable. The main reason to use it is its optimisation, which makes better use of the battery 🔋.
On that front, Brave doesn’t do any better than Chrome — unfortunately they’re both based on the same rendering engine.
I hope I’ve convinced you to ditch 🥳 Chrome!
