# I Ditched Chrome for This $60 Browser, but without paying

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Chris Titus Tech
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTWbFqySxg
- **Дата:** 02.05.2026
- **Длительность:** 8:54
- **Просмотры:** 126,089

## Описание

I finally left Chrome — here's what I switched to. Brave Origin strips out all the bloat (no AI chat, no rewards, no VPN junk) and keeps what actually matters: Chromium security updates and Brave Shields. On Linux it's completely free. On Windows and Mac it's $60 — but I've got a free workaround using Brave DeBloat that gets you 90% of the way there.

⏱ Timestamps
0:00 – Why I left Chrome
2:00 – What Brave Origin removes
4:00 – Free Windows alternative (BraveDeBloat)
6:00 – Activation limits & pricing tips

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## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTWbFqySxg) Why I left Chrome

I've got a new web browser. Finally, I've switched from Chrome. God bless it. I hate Chrome with a dire passion. But alas, I needed a Google account signin with a two-factor hardware key and some other security things that I just can't switch to a completely deooled one. If that's you, I already understand what you're going to say. Titus, pick Helium browser. To which I say, if you don't need Google in your life and you want a debloated, perfect browser, Helium browser is it. I love it to death. But I did have some problems, so I can't use it. That leads us to today. Brave Origin, the $60 browser that doesn't have anything, and it's very much like Helium, but it does have two factor and many other features that Helium was lacking. And it is a very minimal presence. No stupid start screen, no crypto crap, none of that. And if you're on Linux, it's free. Yep, free. You don't have to do anything. No shenanigans. If you're on Windows and Mac, it's $60, though. But I'm not about to recommend a $60 browser to you guys. No. Uh I went a different way with this one. I think if you well you have a lot of money and you don't mind paying $60 for a privacy browser, sure, go for it. But if you're like me and is incredibly cheap and frugal and drives a 10 plus year old vehicle, well, all right then. Let's dive into this video. Brave Origin, what it is it removes pretty much everything except Brave Shields. It keeps all the Chromium updates and security patches, and it has performance and privacy improvements. So, it's a very minimal setup, which I was like, perfect. This is exactly what I need. But it doesn't have Leo, news, playlist, rewards, speed reader, stats and analytics, talk, tour integration, VPN integration, wallet, wayback machine integration, and web

### [2:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTWbFqySxg&t=120s) What Brave Origin removes

discovery project. I'm cool with all that. I don't need all that crap. That sounds awful. I'm done. If I need a Wayback Machine, I'll just go to Wayback Machine on the web. It's fine. So, I think this is a huge win if this is you. If you're on Linux, just go install Brave Origin. Right now, I think it's just in beta, so the stable release hasn't hit yet, but oh, so good. Now, let's talk about that oneline time purchase. You can do an upgrade from your existing Brave if you don't want to go that route. I think the free option really for Linux users is amazing. But I wanted to today show you another option that no one has talked about that I can find that I think will be great. I think Techlor mentioned this a little bit, but uh it's a way I kind of integrate with my setup because I am using Brave Origin on my Linux box, but on Windows, again, I don't want to pay 60 bucks. I'm not a millionaire, man. I just want my stuff to work across all devices, including Windows. And I do want to continue using Brave Origin on my Linux box. I got a third option from the Windows instance. I just use my Windows utility, installed Brave as you normally would, or you can go download it from Brave uh directly. But then there's a critical feature here called BraveDBloat. Now, we've installed this. It's been in the toolbox for a year or two. I really haven't really used it because I've been kind of messing around, tinkering around with other ones, but it's always been there. It's called Brave DBloat right here. Click that. Run tweaks. Now, it's just five registry keys that get added. And those keys are disable rewards, disable wallet, disable VPN, disable AI chat, disable stats, ping as well. So, it's not everything that we talked about, but it's dang near. everything from Origin

### [4:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTWbFqySxg&t=240s) Free Windows alternative (BraveDeBloat)

or at least half or so. So, I'm going to launch it for the first time on this computer after doing these tweaks. And this is the stock Brave experience. I'm going to set it all as default. Close that. We're going to skip integration. And we're going to say nope. No diagnostics, no sharing. And we're about to fix all this. So, I am going to sync my Brave Origin to this computer right here. Give me one second. We'll go into settings, sync, start using, and I have a sync code. All right. And then we're going to just sync everything. So, this pulls in all my stuff from Brave Origin, which you see over here. So, it's not perfect, but it's so close that I'm kind of like, I'm good with it. I don't want to spend $60 to remove some of the extra stuff in there. So, I think it probably still has some of that like the Leo and some of the new stuff hidden somewhere into the more tools tab. But overall, regular Brave debloated with my toolbox just like I debloat Windows. I debloat Brave. Uh is very similar to the Origins. In fact, I'm kind of pulling in all that stuff and kind of pinging my home environment because I've been doing a lot more self-hosting. But overall, I've been tinkering around with both Brave Debloated and Brave Origin and I've really enjoyed it. So, there's the two options for you or three options really, but I really think using Brave Origin on Linux is just fantastic. And then if you do have Windows or Mac devices that you want to use Brave Origin on, I think a debloated Brave experience would be good. But uh obviously if you're a Mac user, you're probably a millionaire already. So just spend the $60, debloat it. Or if you're on Windows, you could use the Brave debloat and just sync that

### [6:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTWbFqySxg&t=360s) Activation limits & pricing tips

way. Very, very similar. I haven't noticed too many different changes. Uh this does feel really snappy. I think just because it's Linux and Linux just has less running. But on top of Brave Origin, it's a great experience. But I went ahead and left certain things about the activation if you do want to pay the $60. I don't have an affiliate link or anything. They're not paying me to make this video. But if you do want to go that route, just know it is 10 activations. I have heard people on the forum say that they've burned through all 10 and they had to call up Brave and had them reset. So, don't just give away your activations willy-nilly because you are limited to 10 of them. So, just important to note, you can upgrade from your existing Brave. So, let's say I do notice, hey, I want more of a debloat even more than what I had. I really want the origin exactly like uh that on my Windows instance. I really don't browse around very much on Windows instance anyway. So, for me, this is good enough. But for you, you might want that extra little bit. You can go ahead and do that route. But I do love the privacy model. Giving this option is fantastic. We have pretty much every option on the table for us from Brave. And now I can actually recommend Brave again because I had a good bit there I was just so sick of all the crap they were adding. I was like AI chat news feeds and VPN crap and I was like no awful gross. It's just a bad taste in my mouth. And now I don't have any of that. And I think this is great. So, for me, Brave Origin's worth it. For you, it might be a different story, but it's a lot better than Google Chrome. And I love that. And if you don't need Google at all in your life and you're like, get out, Helium browser is my big recommendation. That's where we are on 2026 and browsers. I think it's a solid direction. I'm actually for companies charging for privacy. I'm cool with that. I think that's a great idea. If they can't make money by harvesting your data and they're like, "Hey, instead of harvesting your data, we're just going to charge you some money, I'm good with that. I think that's always should be an option. I don't I think we should have that option in every piece of software if they're making all their money from harvesting our data because I definitely want to get away from it. That's why I've been self-hosting so much stuff. But if it isn't for you and you do want to downgrade, they do have a downgrade path. I try to link all the source notes from this article. So, you can click on this and it'll take you directly to Brave's web, you know, uh, web article about Brave Origin, how to activate, how to downgrade, those types of things. And overall, this is kind of where we're at. It's brand new. It's not to a stable release yet, so you might want to wait a little bit, but I at least wanted to make a video and saying I'm all aboard on it. I can get behind it. So, let me know your thoughts down in the comments below, and I'll see you in the next

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