adblock-resources VS user.js

You can find them here https://github.com/brave/adblock-resources/blob/master/filter_lists/list_catalog.json

Brave utilizes a lot of sources that are uBlock. For what it´s worth. So either test/make sure that Brave Shields is set to Aggressive and/or add any additional sources you have in uBlock that are missing in Brave and check if that works better for you.

For most people, the built-in Brave ad blocker set to "Aggressive" should work perfectly fine, as it uses the same default filter lists as uBlock Origin. It also works on Android and won't be subjected to the restrictions for extensions when Google remove support for Manifest V2 – as it isn't an extension.

Brave is essentially Chrome underneath, but with the privacy invading crap removed. It's Rust-based built-in ad blocker works on Android, as well as desktop and uses the same default filter lists as uBlock Origin. It's also possible add additional filter lists from brave://adblock.

Actually Brave has more filter lists on top of uBO as you can see here so if you want those maybe you can add them to uBO as well, but I'm not sure if they're compatible. But uBO on hard mode is definitely stronger protection than Brave with these lists

The Brave Shields content blocker also works really well on Android and uses the same lists as uBlock Origin (see HERE). In the next release, they're adding more procedural cosmetic filtering improvements to their content blocker (see HERE), which will allow even more advanced content blocking. This is already working in Brave Nightly.

Okay then I can also understand that the default.json is built into the AdBlocker, so to speak, and the regional.json is what you can choose from the list in the browser?

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.