Yes, you heard me right: MOST browsers ARE Chrome. Many developers took short-cuts for speed, and time, and used the Chromium Core as the base for their browser and didn't build their browsers from the ground up. Granted, Chrome is fast, but you're giving up your privacy with Chrome, it's loaded with analytic trackers.

I don't like being tracked, so I try to get off Chrome asap when on a new platform, and head to Firefox where I can turn the crap off (see screen cap below of the settings). Below, I will list some of the more common browsers, and if they use the Chromium core or not.

• Brave (Chromium)
• Opera (Chromium)
• Vivaldi (Chromium)
• Microsoft Edge (Chromium)
• Firefox (Quantum Just as fast Chromium, IMO)
• All Android Browsers ARE Chrome, rebranded and Customized by developers. This includes the DuckDuckGo App, Brave Browser, etc.

If you want to get away from Google/Chrome, you need to do your research, and deep dive. Brave Browser isn't the answer. As you can see I've done my research, and I got away from Google, even though I'm on a Chromebook. The OS is solid, the company isn't. My Firefox is running on Linux, not the Chrome OS.