That said, if you don't want to use Chrome, a fairly good alternative would be Vivaldi [0] - a surprisingly neat browser created by the ex-founder of Opera. It's based on the Chromium engine, so no weird rendering shenanigans, but at the same time is quite technically capable, with ad blocking, mouse gestures, email client, etc.
Google has enough control over the internet as is, thank you.
I'd really wish there were other gecko browsers now. Epiphany was good but they switched to Webkit.
Edit: Just learned of LibreWolf. Might be looking into migrating over.