Brave Browser Might Dethrone Chrome Soon Ashwin Kumar R
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hrome has been my go-to for almost a decade now. I’m the kind of person who finds it stupid to cover the webcam (unless I have a sticky note full of credentials on my fridge), so I guess its quite clear already that I’m not high on privacy concerns but what bothered me the most was how much information Google was extracting from me. It is indeed good to have stuff show up when you
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have wanted to check it out for quite some time, but sometimes Google goes overboard, and that’s where things get a little creepy. It gets bizarre to the point where Google starts showing you embarrassing ads. The AdBlock extension wasn’t doing a great job at stopping these ads either. Even before I could think about switching browsers, an article showed up on my Google feed, “Why Microsoft Edge is better
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than Chrome?” (Oh, how nice of you Google) The embarrassing ads and this article made me want to give Edge a shot; I still hadn’t uninstalled Chrome, though. I installed Edge and imported all my settings from Chrome, and I was all set to go. I was pretty happy with how my extensions still worked and how it respected my privacy. I used it for two days and realized that Edge wasn’t as fast as Chrome, and there were minor flaws and aesthetic decisions
