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Unless you absolutely want to contribute to the chromium monopoly, Firefox is right there and still free. If you're concerned about the telemetry, LibreWolf is worth looking at.
Mandatory note: you cannot contribute a dime towards Firefox. Google contributes, not you. Money given to Mozilla will find its way into AI experiments (https://www.mozilla.ai/) and AI grants (https://mozilla.vc/).
Clarification: You can disable all the AI stuff with one switch.
Furthermore, the hardened forks of Firefox don't have it.
Still better than contributing to the chromium monopoly.
Please take this clarification to Mozilla: AI should never have been in their browser in the first place. If they felt it was necessary to waste donations on, they could have offered it as an actually optional extension.
This is just my opinion but, no one using chrome should complain about telemetry in FF.
Firefox has implemented many of the same features that Chrome has recently (groups, split tabs, vertical tabs, reading mode etc.) but has also consistently been implementing them earlier and better. There are just so many small annoyances with these features on Chrome that aren't there in Firefox, and Chrome is always late to the party.
The golden era of Chrome is long gone, probably because the most competent people working at Google have moved on.
I'm extremely cautious around Mozilla (a bit aggressive, even), and don't have much trust in them for the future of Firefox at this point. And yet, it's only worries for the future; as it currently goes, there's some major annoyances in Firefox, but they still give most/all the settings needed to have a privacy-enabled browser (at least enough for most users).
And, obviously, I'd rather take "it currently works well but I'm worried about a potentially bad thing in the future" over "it's broken now and operated by crooks".