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It’s a free country, you can use whatever you like. Respect yourself and your own intuition :)
The current situation (~~summer~~ July–Sept 2023) is, you better switch to any browser that is not Chromium-based. The reason is “Web Environment Integrity” (WEI), which seems to mean, basically, Google is trying to DRM-lock the whole Internet to make sure you see their ads and they can track everyone. Freedom-loving users obviously don’t like that.
At the same time Firefox is getting more and more annoying, yet it’s better than Google. A safe bet for a general user might be LibreWolf. Another new option is Mullvad Browser.
Brave will not support WEI
That is correct—or at least they said so. Brave might be an option too, except if you open their pages, analytics.brave(.)com may be loaded instead of google-analytics(.)com…
I agree that their search engine may be sometimes helpful. Having their own index is awesome.