I’ve switched to using the Duckduckgo web browser on my laptop and phone as it promises to reduce tracking and increase privacy.
Early thoughts are that I am indeed seeing a lot less adverts, pop-ups, and opt-in modals. The video player is great as most YouTube videos play on it no trouble with zero adverts. It’s only the occasional one that insists that it is played through YouTube.
There are a few bugs in it though. One annoying one is where you have two instances of the browser open on your computer with each displayed on a different screen. If you select a bookmark in one it sometimes opens in the other replacing what was already in that window. This is especially annoying if it was a YouTube video and you have to then go back to it and find out exactly where you were up to.
Overall though it works much better than Chrome’s incognito mode. You can still be tracked by each site you visit but you automatically reject the third-party tracking cookies and content.
I still keep Chrome around as there are a handful of sites that only seem to work properly with it. I also use Google search on occasion as DuckDuckGo search filters-out a lot of stuff that you may actually want.
Still, early days..