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but would you over Brave or unGoogled Chromium?
Check brave history and you will see the amount of controversies they have. I personally wouldn't believe anything Brave says.
No. If I may be the hypebeast from a earlier thread, hardened Firefox, Waterfox, Librefox, or Tor. I realize Brave is a choice of some privacy advocates, but I'd honestly be rather cautious using Brave. Firefox or derivatives tighten down pretty well. If you wanted a shortcut to hardening Firefox or derivatives, arkenfox's user.js will jump start you in that direction, tho I always have to tweak some of those settings, but it's a solid point to deviate from.
Personally I use ungoogled chromium when I need a chromium browser, but I can't recommend it for non-technical users without an auto-updater. I'm not familiar enough with Brave to compare
I've read this on GrapheneOS page
"Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet." https://grapheneos.org/usage
And all I use is Gecko-based hehe (although on desktop), I'm currently using Brave just to have some old/disposable accs logged, but I'm looking for Chromium alternatives... and I just looked at ungoogled git and it seems like I have to download a bunch of stuff to compile it myself, argh, I hate that :P
compiled binaries are at ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/
thanks :)