Tired of alternative desktop browsers, thinking of switching to Google Chrome - need advice

If you want complete usability, I’m not sure anything other than Chrome, Edge, or possibly Vivaldi, is currently suitable for Windows. You may have to wait for GrapheneOS to make Vanadium cross-platform before a suitable privacy-respecting browser arrives, and that might not be in a while.

If you aren’t restricted to just Windows on desktop (not very likely, I would assume), Safari on MacOS isn’t that bad. It has anti-fingerprinting and tracker blockers.

SmartScreen sends the full URL of a website to Microsoft, but privacy enthusiasts have made policies to try to improve privacy (at least for MacOS and Linux):

I’d say it skews a bit more towards privacy-unhostile. The topic I’m linking below shows how Vivaldi doesn’t do anything super special to protect privacy. Still, the privacytests.org comparison website may have been made by a former Brave employee, so there is probably some bias.