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You said not Firefox, but have you considered Firefox Focus? Its a much smaller app with the privacy features all enabled by default.
ever since it stopped relying on the built-in Android WebView engine and started packing Gecko (which happened a few years ago), it stopped being "much smaller" than Firefox. the package size is a similar 100 MB now.
I'd meant smaller as in feature set, but I take your point.
IMO, using Gecko instead of WebView-- which is based on Chromium-- is a plus. Chrome itself gets some bad press for being invasiveness and anti-adblockiing. Yes, Mozilla Foundation has been getting too cozy with their advertiser handling and telemetry practices, but you can still disable those. They have a lot more credibility with me still than Google & Chrome/Chromium, who are first and foremost an advertising platform.
I've never claimed otherwise.
firefox focus is not a "privacy browser solution"