Stage 1: Worth it · Browser

They compete to offer a good deal—features, trust, generosity—so people pile in.

Vivaldi
1

A customisable, employee-owned browser that doesn’t track you and has refused to add generative AI.

Browser Tool Since 2016
Brave
1

Chromium fork pushing privacy and optional rewards—fewer trackers by default, but still a product with its own wallet, ads narrative, and ecosystem bets.

Browser Tool Since 2016
Firefox
1

Open-source browser with privacy-forward defaults and no ad-tech parent; Mozilla’s funding model is fragile but the user-facing product still skews toward surplus over extraction.

Browser Tool Since 2004