How many realistic options are there for a browser if I don't use it for stuff that has an app? Servo seemed to work fine the few places I went, but the UI isn't there yet. Lynx either has some tricks I neglected to read about, or is unusable even on stuff that works fine in reader mode as a plain document. Firefox and chrome have some spinoffs that may get rid of telemetry, maybe that is a decent option, but I'd worry about bug fixes. Thoughts anyone?
I just use Firefox and maintain a single policies.json [1] to disable features I don't like (Pocket, telemetry, etc) across all of the computers that I use. Mozilla has pretty good documentation [2] available, mostly aimed at Enterprise admins, but it works for me.
Also ninite.com - you do have to open Edge, but you get a custom installer for a whole host of programs and it won't get flagged by Edge as a competing browser download.
winget install mozilla.firefox
Then you don't even have to open Edge!
I usually just do that step with chocolatey as part of an ansible playbook, but winget works even better.