"I find Google to be quite intrusive and I'm at an age where I value the privacies we used to have and try to retain as much of them as possible.
That's my main concern." I take privacy & security pretty seriously and I'm also very anti-corporate. One of things I actually like about Google is that in my Google account settings I can disable all of the tracking, history as well as see what 2rd party apps/sites are allowed to connect to my Google account. There's a high degree of control and transparency, in my very non-security/privacy professional opinion. Last summer I was locked out of my Google account that I had 2 factor auth setup on for over a week after I lost my phone. I had to go through a quite involved security process to recover my account even with them having my name, phone number and address. One common privacy recommendation for any browser is to use a few well known & well reviewed browser extensions such as Cookie Autodelete, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere. More info here - https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/online-privacy-change-these-browser-settings-asap/ Lastly, I don't know if this was mentioned but you can also set the Brave search engine as your default search engine. More info here - https://search.brave.com/default
