I've been surfing since the WWW started and before that using Gopher. I liked Google at first because AltraVista was noting but ads. Now I avoid Google and the cloud as much as I can. Google never forgets anything I can't stand targeted ads that say based on my past browsing experiences, I might like to try this or that. I won't use any Google browser or search engine.
I use Firefox for my browser and and DuckDuckGo.com (the search engine that doesn't track you) for my search engine. Very happy with this set up. If I need to lower my guard, I'll let one of the other weaker browsers handle it and then close them out.
A word to the wise is sufficient.