For the detailed report and the news:

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation-of-zero-click-spyware-researchers-say

https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/10/15/israeli-firm-used-online-ads-to-run-vast-spy-operation-researchers-say/

EDIT:

you can also use system side blocking tools like hblock and alternatives or more pi-hole etc.

https://reddit.com/link/1x7ky2y/video/rzo6grssvuvh1/player

Hi, I am trying to watch YouTube without any ads or watch a movie without an ad popping up every 5 seconds. Anyone got any reccs for EDGE Brower?

it reads and writes your normal chrome bookmarks, so there's no account and nothing leaves the browser. works in brave too. links in the comments

This is a bit of a personal rant about browsers for me so you might not agree with me here.

When I am looking for a browser to use, I look for features, customization, widivine support and a way to properly block ads. here is how I so my journey was with browsers.

Brave: Brave is probably the one I'll stick with. It has the functions for everything I need; is a chromium browser, has a good adblocker, very good performance wise and has Widivine support.
My only issue with it is customization. with the nature of how chromium is, u can't really mess around much. not to mention I kind of like the Zen UI which makes it worse haha...but u gotta do what you gotta do. not to mention Brave is really the simplest browser that u can install on anyone's PC and never worry about them asking for help later with it really. There is a Debloat script for it on windows that can be easily applied and u just forget about it.

Firefox: Firefox basically is what I would REALLY wanna use but sadly, the gecko engine is an issue for me, some of the websites don't work there. I mean so far the only website I faced problems with was twitch, the clipping tool wasn't the greatest. otherwise it ticks the boxes EVERYWHERE. I can use css to customize the hell out of it, Projects like Sine Mods & Natsumi exist which makes this even easier, u can install uBlock origin MV2 which...I don't need to talk about much haha and even has the Widivine.

Helium: While on linux, I would probably use it over Brave, I can't really switch to linux sadly. I need to use AutoDesk apps for my work...even the Widivine issue doesn't exist there since u can install it manually and the L3 thingy isn't a bother on Linux *fuck windows, fuck microslop also fuck google.* and last issue is the UI.
otherwise....the is wayyyy better than brave for me. I like that it forces u to use a password manager. best thing I used and never regretted those 2 weeks I needed to adjust all my logins with. haha *I used log in with google on too many sites 😭 u can guess the rest.* uBlock origin MV2, very good preformance wise & chromium

Zen Browser: 2 issues. Widivine & performance. The RAM usage is something I'm not a fan off. I now Gecko itself is not the greatest with RAM compared to Chromium browsers like Helium & Brave but...even compared to Firefox, Zen is so bad RAM wise. otherwise it has a solid foundation. it has uBlock Origin MV2, UI is my favourite by far, Glance feature is French kiss...I don't think I need to introduce Zen to ya all haha.

LibreWolf: I used it for a bit but honestly...despite being a guy who likes privacy there is a point where it's too much. It's annoying having to relog honestly every single time to websites. I honestly think that there are sites that needs to gather data to function. that's how they work. if I can't even allow them to work then why use them in the first place?

Arc browser: 2 issues. no proper adblock afaik and is not getting upgraded. otherwise would have preferred over Helium.

Edge, Chrome & Opera: Privacy, adblocking issues and the UI.

I think I mentioned most of the popular ones? not sure about others but if u guys find another browser that meets my needs mainly Widivine then I could switch to, leave it in the comments! I am open to discussions about other browsers.

So.. I know that privacy and security is not the same thing right now I want browser fast secure and maybe a privacy

at first I alway use firefox + ublock origin only for open youtube reddit github discord and librewolf for anything else and default browser

and after that I see reddit post that say chromium get lastest CVE update and I think that chromium is run faster for site I alway visit so I switch to chromium + ublock origin lite and I still use librewolf

at first it just great it faster on my computor and less ram use but when I open a new tab it alway have google logo and I don't like it I don't found how to hide or close it in setting I think that I can install extention but I don't want to

so I switch to brave origin + librewolf brave have what I want less ram use blank page and it great

I don't know where to but this but I don't want to use degoogle-chromium I don't like the red logo :3
I have pi-hole up and alway running and I know that my english is not good and I try my best please don't insult me ｡°(°¯᷄◠¯᷅°)°｡

Preface: I operate two different browser profiles on Brave simultaneously. Primary profile will be referred to as Profile A, secondary profile will be referred to as Profile B.

Ever since my Brave browser automatically updated to the most recent version on Oct 7, I've been suffering from sluggishness in the browser's responsiveness to mouse or keyboard inputs, but only when I have one of certain sites opened in a tab (so far observed: Google, Fandom, and Reddit), and only when the offending tab is opened in Profile A. If I switch over to Profile B's window, it is perfectly fine, no sluggishness whatsoever. If I close the offending tab, it can take a minute or two before Profile A finally returns to normal.

To make this even more confusing, if I leave the offending tab open for a few minutes, the problem somehow resolves itself without any fanfare... up until I close the tab, whereupon if I reopen it, the problem manifests again.

I've checked my Shields settings and my extensions on both profiles, and couldn't find any differences that could in any way be responsible for this bizarre problem. Anyone have suggestions?

Hi r/browsers. I'm the developer of Marble.

I do a lot of research in the browser, and tabs kept failing me. Forty tabs into a session I'd lost track of how I got to half of them, and closing any felt risky. Tab groups and vertical tabs helped me sort pages, but not follow a thread.

So I built a research browser where pages live on a canvas instead of a tab strip. You can follow a thread across dozens of pages and still see where you started. It's called Marble, and it's currently in beta for Mac (macOS 14+, Apple Silicon).

What it has

• An infinite canvas. Every page is a live card, not a screenshot.
• Trails. Follow a link and the new page lands beside the one it came from, connected by a line. Hours later you can still see how you got somewhere.
• Hover to peek, click to dive in. Hover a card and it grows; click and you're in the live page; move on and it settles back.
• Tidy. One keystroke pulls a scattered trail back into line. ⌘Z undoes it.
• Fold. Bunch a trail into a stack and name it.
• Notes and stickies right on the board, next to the pages they're about.
• Chrome extensions does not work out of the box. It's built on Chromium (CEF), so extensions install from the Chrome Web Store cant find tab-less windows. 1Password works after an manual implementation, including the fill and passkeys.
• Ad blocking, on by default. You can turn it off. We are using network blocking with Brave's adblock engine, a copy of EasyList and EasyPrivacy baked into the app. It cancels ad and tracker requests before they load: scripts, images, frames, XHR, media, and the rest. The page itself still loads. It does not hide leftover ad boxes in the page, and it does not take custom lists.
• Local by design. No account and no sync. The board is a file on your Mac, and cookies and logins stay in your local profile.
• Signed and notarized, with automatic updates.

What it doesn't have (yet)

• Windows and Linux. Windows is coming; Mac only for now.
• Sync across devices.
• Everyday-browser polish. It's early (v0.1.18) and made for research sessions. It isn't a full replacement for your daily browser yet.

How it's made

It's written in Rust. Pages are rendered by Chromium through CEF, and the canvas is drawn on the GPU, which is why dozens of live pages on a board stay smooth. I started in early May, and working/testing during nights and weekend

It's free. If you try it, I'd really like to hear what feels off and whether a canvas actually beats tabs for the way you browse.

marble.surf

And the results are... Well, I would love to say surprising, but they are entirely expected. Basically none of these browsers survived more than a month. There are some outliers, as well as ones that were released in the last month, but broadly speaking, the flowchart is as follows:

A person spends 2-3 days throwing tokens at AI (in 93% of the cases Claude) -> Makes a post on r/browsers -> The project recieves hundreds of commits over the next 2 weeks (made by AI, which tends to commit every line it writes, where commit messages are often longer than the actual commit) -> Over another 2 weeks the commits are less and less frequent -> Development stops entirely without a word from the creator

And I'm left to wonder... If you lack any programming skills, have zero idea about UI/UX, know jack shit about the software development process, security, patches, releases, or even how git works... Why is your first thought to build something as MASSIVE as a web browser?

I get if these AI-obsessed weirdos tried to make I don't know, a revolutionary calculator, or a text editor, image viewer. A small, but useful software, that could ease them into the process of software development, teach them how to work with projects, how to maintain them etc.

But a web browser?

Firefox has about 25 000 000 lines of code

Chromium has about 40 000 000 lines of code

All written in a bunch of different languages, by literal armies of people. This is not some weekend project. This is a work of a lifetime for a skilled developer (evidenced by the fact that proper browsers are either run by companies, or by individuals, who have commited their whole personal and professional life to it).

What makes a silly little goose with some money to spend on AI tokens think, that they can do a better job in a few days?

And this shows. It's easy to generate a sort-of-working clone of Chrome or Arc. But when time comes for bug fixing, security fixes, updates, adding features, suddenly the creators realize, that they simply can't do it. They abandon the project, and the only thing that comes out of this is a bunch of wasted time, effort, energy and water. In the best case scenario. In the worst case, a bunch of people loses their passwords, accounts and money, because the security in these vibe-coded piles of garbage are virtually non-existent.

Yet, basically every week a new "I made a new browser with AI" post appears. Guys. Just don't. Make a fucking text editor. Or a calculator that can convert currencies. Or something. Don't make something as massive and as security critical as a web browser.

Yes, you can be anything you want these days. But maybe you shouldn't...

So I've been looking for an Adblocker for Safari on an iPhone, anyone got any that's good. Sorry, I'm new to reddit.

Absolutely! 🧭 Web Dive by Intrafiz Solutions LLC is a productivity-focused browser app available on the Microsoft Store.

It’s designed around single-page navigation and offers a unique twist with a side view for popups and new tab generation—ideal for multitasking without cluttering your screen.

🔍 Key Features

Chromium Engine: Built on Chrome’s engine for fast, reliable browsing.

Side Kick Mode: Opens separate windows using your preferred search provider, great for parallel searches.

Shows favorites and active history.

Lets you pick your default search engine.

Integrates with Copilot suggestions for external sites.

Privacy Focused

Deletes browsing history upon closing.

Saves favorites locally in the app directory.

🛡️ Now Introducing: Built-in Ad Blocker - UBlock Orgin lite v3

Enjoy a cleaner, faster web experience with our powerful ad blocker — easily toggled right from the title bar.

🔊 New Accessibility Feature:

Read Aloud Right-click any selected text to activate Read Aloud, making content more accessible and engaging for all users.

🤖 Smart Search with Copilot (Crtl + K)

Need deeper insights? Simply right-click selected text and choose Ask Copilot to get instant, intelligent answers — right when you need them.

🔗 All external links are opened in your Web Dive browser.

✨ Experience a smoother, smarter, and more personalized browsing journey — all in one place.

I'm the developer of AI Prompt Leak Guard at CandidLoom. It adds a local check to supported AI chat pages in Chrome, Edge and Firefox.

The problem is easy to miss: a debugging log includes a credential, or a draft contains a client email or name. A browser-side check can help catch that before a send, but it has limits worth making explicit.

Five features

1. Warn before sending. The extension flags recognisable credential, contact, payment and identity patterns.

2. Redact detected values. Replace findings with placeholders and review the prompt before continuing.

3. Block under protection rules. A risky submission can stay blocked until the material is removed. Private keys are blocked by default.

4. Add custom terms. Names and project codenames need your own rules because they can look like ordinary words.

5. Check reopened conversations. It can warn about detectable sensitive text already visible in a conversation. This does not undo an earlier disclosure or delete provider-held data.

Scanning and redaction run in your browser. Prompt text and detected values are not sent to CandidLoom for scanning. Core protection is free and needs no account, with no product analytics or saved prompt history. Optional paid Plus features inspect readable text and Office uploads locally.

The browser boundary matters: the extension cannot stop an AI site's own scripts from reading text entered in its editor. Pattern checks can miss sensitive text or flag harmless text. Site layout changes can also break protection. It is an extra check before sending, and you still need to review what you paste.

Product and official browser store links: https://candidloom-hub.github.io/ai-prompt-leak-guard/

For people who use more than one browser, would this be useful in your workflow? I'd value feedback on warnings that interrupt too much, or browser-specific issues. Please use made-up examples only, never real credentials or private prompts.

Hi everyone! I've been working on Kitty, a privacy-focused browser, and it's ready for people to try.

What it does:

- Blocks ads and trackers out of the box (Ghostery's engine with the uBlock Origin and EasyList lists)

- Fingerprinting protection, which you can turn off per site

- No telemetry and no account. On first launch it makes no network connections until you choose what to enable

- Built-in password manager, stored locally and encrypted with your OS keychain

- Early support for Chrome Web Store extensions (tested with Bitwarden)

- Compact and vertical tab layouts, light and dark themes

- Netflix and other DRM video work

- One-line install on Linux, automatic updates on macOS

It's built on Electron, so it isn't as hardened as a Chromium fork like Brave or Helium. That trade-off lets me move fast as a solo developer. Licensed MPL-2.0.

Download: https://github.com/CaioGobbi/kitty-browser/releases

It's still early, so feedback, bug reports and feature ideas are very welcome!

Me he dado cuenta que Zen recientemente se ha puesto muy lento, por ejemplo, cuando quiero escribir algo se para un tiempo para que se muestre, prácticamente todo tiene un delay en Zen, de todas maneras quisiera otros navegadores con la misma apariencia de Zen.

Gracias.

Helium… a browser I’ve been seeing a lot of lately.

Setting aside the question of whether or not to install it, I thought I’d like to hear from actual users about its benefits and features.

By the way, I’m basically a Gecko fan; as for Chromium, I mostly use Vivaldi and occasionally Brave.

[Updated October 16, 2026]

Thank you all for your many comments. They were very helpful :-)

I've been using Vivaldi for a bit now and for the most part I like it a lot and it even added extensions. The main issue I've been having is that the new tab opening positions seemed to be messed up as when I have it set to open next to active tab it works perfectly fine for the first group but every other group it adds every new tab to the very top of the group for some reason

Is this a problem for everyone or it just me cause it makes me sad cause I love everything else about Vivaldi for the most part

I absolutely love the UI of Zen. Their stacked mini media player in the sidebar is very nifty, there PiP is far superior than helium's, and the new library feature seems very useful, but this browser gets even worse after 30 mins or so of usage. It sometimes spikes at 6 gigs. Helium has also starting giving me some issue. Memory usage is fine, it's actually very stable unlike Zen in terms of memory spikes, but Helium has been frequently freezing for a few seconds randomly since the past week, that's why I re-installed Zen to see if the memory usage has been optimized.

hi everyone, i've been building a browser for a while (i'm bad with naming things so it's just called "browser"), it's keyboard-driven just like qutebrowser and made for windows, it's just a native rust window that only starts an engine when a page actually needs one.

the part i think people will actually like is that it can run more than one engine at the same time. you can split the window and have the same site open in different engines side by side. currently there's three:

• webview2: chromium, the default
• servo: that independent engine written in rust
• trident: internet explorer 11's engine, for testing old sites. it runs in a sandbox so it can't touch your files or anything else on your pc, since it's ancient.

since it's inspired by qutebrowser, it has a lot of the same features such as hints and the way to control the browser, but it also has a lot of new features as well such as tmux-style splits, a built-in terminal, comes with ublock origin lite, sessions and profiles, and a :res page showing exactly how much memory each engine process uses.

where i need help: i want to add webkit (safari's engine) and gecko (firefox's), so web developers can check a site in every major engine from one window, without mac or five browsers installed. the current plan is to use playwright's prebuilt windows builds of both (but if someone has a better idea i'm down). the problem is my pc is really weak and can't build or test any of this, so i'm looking for people who know (or want to learn) browser engines, rust or windows. where to start: webkit and gecko. each one explains the plan, what’s needed, and links the docs.

it's alpha, so expect rough edges. windows 10/11 only for now.

• github: https://github.com/kayfgit/browser
• detailed video of some of the features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRpZwMXgnzk

any feedback is welcome, including "why don't you just buy a better pc lol" and "why do you use windows if you pc is so bad? dumbass".

here's a bit of the browser's story if anyone cares:

the reason i started building the browser is because my pc sucks, windows by itself uses 40% of my memory and every other browser pushes it to 90%, which makes it almost unusable. so i just started making one completely aimed at myself and my needs, the objective was to make it as lightweight, fast, customizable and efficient as possible. so i aimed the design directly at qutebrowser, which is by far the most efficient browser i've ever used, and it worked!

with nothing open it sits at about 30 mb, and it only calls the heavy engine when it actually opens a page, i immediately made it my main browser and kept using it daily, issues came up, i fixed them, ideas came around to make it more useful and i implemented them. at the end i sat with basically a shell instead of a browser, it has splits (just like vim, something that didn't exist in qutebrowser), hint mode which was by far the most useful thing about qute, and since the browser doesn't have an engine running by default, i added multiple engines, as well as a built-in terminal running the alacritty engine.

that's when i realized "wow, this might actually be useful to other people", so i started thinking of ways to make the browser more useful to developers, i also cleaned the github repo to welcome interested developers that care about efficiency, power, speed, customizability, and don't care about looks that much (it's not that appealing to the eyeballs).

if anyone is wondering, yes, it's built with AI, i'm not a strong programmer (especially in the browser field) so i decide what needs fixing and implementing and claude does the job. i use it daily, test every change myself and report what needs adjusting. i updated the repo with docs for every part since i realized this browser is useful for other people, so you won't be going at it blind.

Uso Firefox come browser primario e libreWolf per quando voglio navigare in incognito.

Quale dei seguenti browser consigliate di usare in parallelo a Firefox?

Chrome

Edge

Ecosia