> And no, that does not mean switch to Brave or Edge. Chrome forks by and large fall in line with Chrome's choices

Not sure I'd agree with that.

Of course, Edge is built on Chromium, but Microsoft are free to make their own changes, and to reverse any changes from Google that they don't like.

So, in this case, Edge can give you all the performance characteristics of Google's own Chrome browser but without the ads... win-win I reckon.

Edge is better than Chrome, but only slightly: Microsoft has chosen to largely follow all of Google's platform decisions, including Manifest V3. The Edge PM is a former Googler, and is absolutely unable to grasp that he's collaborating with the enemy half the time.

With the increased privacy features built-in, it's definitely an improvement, and feeding Microsoft is less bad than feeding Google, but I'm not confident Edge's current developers have the backbone to stand up to Google's decisions.

> And no, that does not mean switch to Brave or Edge. Chrome forks by and large fall in line with Chrome's choices. Firefox or Safari are the only choices.

What choices? After seeing how they responded to Manifest v3 Mozilla seems pretty spineless compared to Brave.

So we're basically back to ad-supported Opera then?

Opera is also a Chrome fork now. Firefox and Safari are the only two major browsers not based on Google code.