It's inferior to... Firefox!

The old version of Firefox for Android (Fennec) had several important features that never made it into the rewrite. I understand they wanted to address architectural issues and improve performance, but the net result was that one day you opened up an app you'd been using happily for years only to be presented with a buggy, more limited alternative that was barely recognizable.

Things are a little better now, but you still can't print, install arbitrary extensions, save offline in reader mode, and more.

Brave is excellent at blocking ads by default (and based off Chrome). Its tracking prevention is a double edged sword: lots of sites with reCAPTCHA make me prove I'm human, because Google can't leverage any browsing footprint to guess that I am credibly human. It's inconvenient but a welcome reminder of how profiled normal web users are.

Chrome. It's just my personal opinion as a user, based on my own use case. Can't really detail, but mainly various UX issues. It feels unpolished.

As for ad block, I use DNS based blocker apps like adgarud on my phone.

I agree! In my case, I additionally use NoScript as well with both the mobile and desktop browsers. It's such a great experience.

DDG browser is pretty good on Android.

Brave