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> Do I have any serious alternative?

Vivaldi?

I'm using Firefox myself and have been using it almost exclusively since it was named Firebird back in the day, but I have considered Vivaldi as an alternative at one point.

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I like Vivaldi but the issue is that you're still locking yourself into Chromium's Blink rendering engine which just serves to strengthen Google's push to be the de-facto standards enforcer of the web.

Exactly. Thanks for writing it out.

Anything wrong with Opera or Opera GX?

Same engine.

Also owned now by a China-based company and closed source

Personally, a proprietary browser really rubs me the wrong way

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