No web browser offers a good out of the box experience.

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I feel like there is no web browser with a sane default configuration that I can recommend to other people. All browsers are preconfigured in a way that harms the privacy of their users or include services that no one wants such as Pocket and BAT.

Here are my problems with some popular browsers.

  • Mozilla Firefox: Pocket integration, no ad-blocking without extensions.

  • Brave: Everything related to crypto. Also its start page is horrible.

  • Chromium: No ad-blocking without extensions and soon Manifest v3 will cripple all content blockers.

Now, these suboptimal defaults wouldn't be such a big problem if the configuration files were easy to backup and restore and respected the XDG base directory specification.

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though brave has 2 issues you can't turn off:

  • it's chromium-based, and strenghtens the browser engine monopoly
  • the company behind it seems quite shady, and afaik the ceo/leader/founder/... is homophobic

Yeah, obviously not great. Hence why I only use it for testing.

I would love to ignore Chromium based browsers completely I’m a web developer, so I can’t.

I wish there were a Chromium browser I could have the warm fuzzies about, but I’m not aware of one.

the browser engine monopoly

I don't think you understand what a monopoly is. Chromium was developed specifically to avoid a monopoly...

Chromium was developed specifically to avoid a monopoly...

[Citation needed]

No one at Google is going to say that out loud. But it's a fairly obvious assumption.

Same reason that Firefox is almost entirely funded by Google

Wasn't Chrome also sort of a 'reference implementation' for years and years?