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. 
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.
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I’ve found Firefox with UBlock and UMatrix to be the best setup honestly
this is it
a fun bonus with uMatrix is that you get to stare into the web development abyss on every new website encounter