As usual in the comments, programming.dev chuds care a whole lot about performatively not caring and get enraged at the thought of other people caring, thus the advocacy for Brave Browser entirely on the basis of “melting snowflakes” the way thumbheads roll coal because they want to “trigger” people that would prefer an inhabitable environment. 
After reading that article if you still use that browser then you kinda are just a homophobe.
There’s loads of techy reasons listed it’s “sub-optimal” so like your use must be because you ideologically support the brand/creator 🤷♀️
This just feels like one of those times crypto bigots get to smuggly justify their reasoning behind a market choice lens and dogwhistle their satisfaction with the “win” against the *insert slur here" without openly saying it and libs will eat it up.
Could you please share any good alternatives? I’ve been unaware of these issues until now and to be honest, I doubt that I see myself expending the energy to read this article.
That being said, right now Brave provides a very easy to use ad-free experience that is great for running youtube in the background ad-free. It’s pretty good for listening to lectures on youtube and performs much better than podbean which often freezes randomly, a bug that is pretty bad given that I listen to alot of these things while driving and am unable to fidget with it.
Is there a similar browser that has these functionalities that works as well or better? If so I’d gladly switch over and encourage my partner to do the same.
I’m not a techy 🤷♀️
My bf likes opera, other people i know prefer others and they all use VPNs if that matters?
I don’t really get how hyper optimised you need a browser since I’m not someone who uses a desktop or laptop a lot so I’m not the person who can appreciate what you are looking for on a technical level.
There are plenty of people here or lemmygrad who could probably though. Make a thread asking for advice and I’m sure someone would suggest something if you don’t get any suggestions from this comment.
Then politely you don’t seem like you really care about these issues to inform yourself so why would you want to change?
Seems like a weird disconnect that you care enough about the issue listed to want to change if options are available but don’t care enough to read an article never mind do some research?
That just comes across as virtue signalling tbh.