Comment by devnullbrain

>Since the core foundation of their product is open and available to every other competing browser they could implement better privacy protections while still leveraging all of the other benefits of Chrome.

With what funding? Chrome loses money. Edge loses money. Safari loses money. Firefox loses Google's money. Brave loses VC money.

Without some endless source of money, funding you for an ulterior motive, you can't compete with them. Which is why:

>For all the downsides that Chrome has I don't see anything that fits the term better for my use case.

The anti-competitive practices ensure there can't be effective competition.