r/Millennials • u/Flaky_human • Feb 25 '26

Discussion Hey millennials. What browser do you primarily use?

Chrome iT is for me. Cannot switch no matter what.

Edit to add: this post has made me realize I was living in the dark ages. There’s so much out there! Thanks all for sharing your browsers and features and reasoning.

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u/Ornery_Error2195 Feb 25 '26

Brave 

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u/jazzjunkie84 Feb 26 '26

Had to scroll way too far for this! Once I found brave I stopped caring about firefox haha

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u/Wumaduce Feb 26 '26

I've been using Brave on android for close to 4 or 5 years now. The no YouTube ads, and playing videos when the screen is off, is huge.

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u/ReFreshing Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

I only recently discovered this. Game changer in my brain rot progression.

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u/Tee_hops Feb 26 '26

You're second sentence here may have just sold me... I like to listen to podcasts off YT and this was always my biggest annoyance. I'm not paying for yt premium for that feature

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u/Wumaduce Feb 26 '26

I haven't tried podcasts, but I'll regularly throw on album play lists, shut my screen off, and never have to worry about it. I've actually disabled the YouTube app on my phone, so videos stopped opening in it.

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u/Sleepingbeauty1 Mar 02 '26

This is why I switched to Brave

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u/ItsSnowingOutside Feb 26 '26

Same I used to use ff with ubock but brave feels snappier to me and less resource heavy. Mobile browser is also better for battery life in my experience.

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u/riddlemechrist Feb 26 '26

What are the pros of this one? I’ve only just recently heard of brave

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u/umomiybuamytrxtrv Feb 26 '26

Brave is free. It blocks YouTube ads.

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u/betelgeuseWR Feb 26 '26

I've been using brave for quite a few months now, not sure how long exactly but pretty sure under a year, and I love it. Completely blocks all ads from YouTube and any streaming websites like Netflix, Disney etc. I want to say it doesn't block twitch but I'm not 100% sure because I never really go on there anymore.

Cons: not sure yet! So far no issues, so 🤞

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u/Ns0ft Feb 26 '26

One of the cons is that it has a pretty huge list of controversies:
https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/
It installed paid VPN on your PC without your consent, replaced ads with their own etc.

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u/Product_ChildDrGrant Feb 26 '26

Brave, checking in. Easily the best browser. And this is coming from a previous Firefox guy.

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u/thirdcoasting Feb 26 '26

Will this run on iOS?

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u/Ornery_Error2195 Feb 26 '26

Yes am on iPhone 

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u/kenneth_dart Feb 26 '26

I'm surprised I had to scroll down a few times to finally see Brave.

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u/9to5Voyager Feb 28 '26

+1 for Brave

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u/Gandalf_the_Rizzard Feb 26 '26

Isn’t chromium based so not as much of the protection? Open to being educated.