Personally the combination of Chromium and being in beta is not appealing to me. But also I only really use Chromium browsers for development testing these days

I use LibreWolf on Linux as my primary browser, but have recently installed Helium as a backup browser for rare times where chrome is required for a specific site, or for testing.

Helium seems pretty transparent, even giving the option in setup not to use their enhancement services, or self-hosting those same enhancement services, or turn them off if you want to.

Helium currently supports MV2 extensions and has Ublock installed by default, though it is hard to say how long they may maintain MV2 support, given Google ditched it.

While not my daily driver Helium does seem to get rid of Google monitoring, has solid base settings and security defaults, includes Ublock by default which I think is absolutely necessary, and has some nice use and customization features.

Never heard of it. And by the description on the page it looks like it’s a better brave browser.

I will stay on Floorp (Firefox fork) for my primary browser though. I use Thorium (Chromium fork) as my secondary browser in the rare case that a site doesn’t work on Floorp.