Maybe you should ditch Gmail instead?
I like gmail web mail a lot, and don't have any desire to switch. It seems absurd that my web browser would be incompatible with that.
I obviously get the idea of privacy. But using gmail somewhat contradicts it.
What you DIDN'T sign up for is Chrome, which can see every site you have every visited, sending all of that info to Google as well to perhaps start targetting some different ads at you. I'm sure that would work well if one of your housemates had visited a dodgy site, which then picks up some suspect ads when you are doing online shopping with your girlfriend.
Well, I've sort of just accepted that Google has all of my personal data at this point. I trust them with data that I want to explicitly give up for the sake of convenience. Anything I type into Gmail I can accept as becoming essentially public record.
However, that doesn't extend to passively collected browsing data. It creeps the shit out of me that my private browsing history could be associated to my real life identity and other PII by someone at Google.
I'm thinking about doing that.
The single reason I started with GMail was because at the time, it had the best spam filter in the industry.
But that was years ago. Has everyone else caught up? Is there another option with equally good spam filtering?
IMO, options like ProtonMail are much better. A service that isn't free but doesn't exploit users in order to make $$ ought to be a better option.
Otherwise I've had pretty good luck.