You may be interested in this video by Gamers Nexus from about 10 months ago:
"Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs
Basically, Google has made their search engine results purposefully worse, so that users need to keep scrolling to find the correct search results, while they feed more ads to users.
What's the name of the program I'm looking for?
I don't think I've had their VPN installed (I use FF, Librewolf and Mullvad 99.99% of the time), but I do have Brave installed as a 4th option and have only used it a few times, so I'd like to make sure their VPN wasn't installed at some point.
In Services, I only see three Brave entries. Two are for keeping it up to date, and the other provides elevated privileges.
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Librewolf is a fork of Firefox. You can even still have a Mozilla account with it. Meaning, you can sync Firefox on mobile to Librewolf on PC.
I usually have a lot of tabs open on PC, at all times. I use FF for anything where they already have all, or a significant amount of, my details (full name, address, &/or credit card, etc.), like Amazon, banking, Proton & Tuta email and calendar, etc. I use Librewolf for other websites where I need to login, but I want more privacy / even less tracking than FF. I occasionally even use Mullvad browser (another FF fork) as well.