Chrome is still the tech standard for average users. I've experimented with the Brave browser, but it does have a memory issue somewhere in it's dev that makes it a bit slower to use than just bare bones chrome. I did like that it's built in adblocker took care of all my ad blocking needs without an extension, and it has all the vpn options like most newer browser platforms.
Even the money hungry YouTube ad demons din't bug me.. It's been kind of hard for me to escape YouTube ads on chrome ever since YouTube devs started that little pushback war on adblocking. I'm using the Ublock lite extension on chrome that works atm but I have to turn it off when I browse all the money making platforms I use, and then when I turn it on sometimes it goes through hell to start blocking ads on YT again. There's been several of the free ad blocker extensions that just stopped working completely on YT since the big ad battle started lol.