Switch to Brave?
 

Is this a good way to go? I get websites all the time that detect ad blockers and make me turn them off for their site- will Brave stop that?

https://brave.com/

My simple rule is if the web site complains about an add blocker, I leave and go to another site.

Brave user here, especially with youtube.

I tweek it a little from default, I turn off wallet, rewards, suggested sites, top sites, show shields and auto play.

I just found that there is an entire subforum on reddit for the browser:

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/

Looks like it's been around for 4 years or so.

Based on this thread looks like it might be worth trying out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/19132y4/trying_to_understand_brave/

Chrome or Chromium for werk stuff, Firefox or links2 with X support compiled in (no javascript engine at all :) )

Yeah, I'm stuck with Chrome at work. It's OK, better than IE/Edge for sure (not a surprise to anyone). I use FF at home with NoScript and uBlockOrigin, and also have Pi-Hole for DNS.

Sometimes you've just got to have Java.

I'm ready for a vanilla soy java right now.

You mean there are still client side Java applets? Damn...