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I’m sitting here listening to Steve talk about how every browser is just Chromium. 3x is definitely a sus number, but all Chromium browsers are not the same!
Although ironically Brave isn’t benchmarking so well right now. And for what it’s worth Edge has very often been #1 on this list.
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And Brave’s speed is based on the built in ad and tracking blocking, so those sub-sites are never called, which, on a heavily enshitified site can make a huge difference. That said, I use DNS blocking, so it doesn’t make much difference on my devices.
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Yes but you wouldn’t think those things would factor in on benchmarking pages.
Some pages have so many ads and tracking sites linked to them, that this crud takes 3-5 times longer to load than the page itself and the page doesn’t mark itself as loaded until all that crud has loaded as well, so that would seriously affect the loading times with a browser that, in standard configuration, loads all that crud and Brave, which in its standard configuration blocks all the crud from even being called, let a.