Which is easier to play for black? French Advance or Caro Kann Advanced

I am trying new defense against e4. My concern is white will advance his e pawn to e5 after d5 in French and Caro Kann.

Which in your opinion is easier to defend by black?

I prefer the CaroKann as it is much more dynamic, as your Bc8 can move.

But if your objective is to defend and draw then you should just learn the French.

they're both extremely complex and hard to play. I prefer the French as it seems like Black has winning chances pretty much everywhere while in the Caro I can't count how many different ways White has to make a draw or to reach very drawish endgames

#2 this is so wrong, a Bishop being on f5 isn't dynamic because it just can't leave the diagonal and putting It on g6 or h7 doesn't add any dynamism to it. The French gives more winning chances than the Caro and that's a fact

French is easier. Caro Kann is more dynamic. I guess you can't play both

Ugh. Rubbish

I'd say the French is easier to learn, since black always plays the same ...c5 pawn thrust in response to the Advance, so the repertoire (against the Advance) is very straightforward.

The Caro-Kann branches out a bit wider, with more theoretical paths for both colors to pursue. (Black can play Bishop to f5, or pawn to c5 right away, or he could delay pawn to c5 after first developing his knights, or he could refrain from playing pawn to c5 altogether, and choose to play h6 +g5 instead ...).

So with the Caro-Kann, you have to do your homework a bit more, so to speak. Black has a bit more flexibility, but so does white. That means more ways for either color to go wrong.

After the opening, though, there's still a lot of game to be played, and both the French and the Caro-Kann can get simple and quiet, or they can get wild and complicated.

So it mostly comes down to a matter of taste, with the resulting middle-game positions.