Web browsers: A field guide

Jared Newman

October 30, 2025

In this guide:

Built-in browsers
Privacy browsers
Power user browsers
AI browsers

Most folks don’t think about web browsers all that much, but they’re incredibly important pieces of software.

Swapping Chrome for a more privacy-oriented browser like Brave or DuckDuckGo, for instance, can sharply reduce how much data companies collect about you online, while power user browsers like Vivaldi can help you deal with tab overload. A new breed of AI browsers, meanwhile, aim to take the friction out of using tools like ChatGPT.

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