I'm 99% sure they wouldn't pass a safety inspection.
Rocha
Update: Moving form Zen to regular 6.5.4 kernel greatly reduced the number and intensity of crackles. Unfortunatly, moving from regular to 6.1 lts remained with the same reduced crackles.
That might actually be related, because I'm also using the zen-kernel.
I'll try with the regular and lts ones and report back.
Thanks!
I believe Brave is the most private chromium browser, at least with the installation defaults.
As for the controversies with the company, there were some at the beginning stages, but I haven't heard anything new in quite a while.
Regarding the crypto, vpn, etc bloat, I use Brave on all my devices and all I have to do is hide that stuff after the installation and I've never been bothered by pop-ups or similar annoyances. I don't think it's more annoying to remove than having to remove the recommended sites and Pocket with Firefox.
Since you want private browsing, I would also say that a big plus for Brave is that it has built-in Tor browser.
I believe that they emit less CO2 compared to gasoline powered cars, but a lot more nitrates, which are carcinogenic.
Yeah, sometimes if I haven't booted up my laptop in a while, I'll run pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring to get the keys I need.