I've used Palemoon for years, but may go to Brave.
I went that way for a while... but went back to Mozilla. Maybe just nostalgia, as I have been on that browser since the Netscape days.
However, I find myself using chrome more and more, because FF doesn't handle Java anymore, and MANY sites still require it... SO I might finally be going elsewhere myself
Yes, I do know that. Do you know of an alternative that doesn't?
Google
Bing
Yahoo
Lycos
AOL
Webcrawler
That's the main general purpose search engines. They ALL suck, and they all track.
It doesn't matter to me anymore, especially because my phone not only uses google, and I use google assistant, and google maps, and my main mail and calendar go through google so they show up between my phone and other devices... So I am literally always logged into google.
For the longest time I used Yahoo as the lesser evil, but interoperability leaves you in just one of three camps... Apple, Google, or Microsoft, tough sh*t, there it is.
I tried MS, but google fits me better. And I will never go apple. Ever.
However IF you are not using one of their browsers (which pretty much leaves you in Mozilla's camp),
AND if you have telemetry shut off in Windows (7 and above),
AND you are not logged in to any major search site (MSN/bing, google, etc)
You should be able to run ccleaner or some other cache and cookie cleaner at the end of each session to mess em up. because if you are not logged in, they must be using tracking cookies.