Brave vs. Firefox ESR? Which one is better

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See also earlier discussion:

LibreWolf to replace Firefox

What do you mean? Mozilla doesn’t collect any data for Google; AFAIK Google supports them to avoid antitrust and does not dictate what they do. As you said, Mozilla is the only hope of free independent web and using Firefox helps to show everyone that it should be supported by the websites. DDG browser has a negligible usage and no one would even notice it in the statistics. If you mean that Google is the search engine then it’s not a huge loss in my view, since most people got used to Google …