>>Chrome

You might want to revisit Microsoft Edge. The newer versions (last year or so) are built on Chromium so for-Chrome extensions (e.g. uBlock-Origin, uMatrix) work.

It's got a lot of useful features, particularly for those of us who leave a lot of tabs open, notably the ability to have tabs run down the left side. Those have more space for text than across the top making it easier to find a tab that you've moved on from some while back. And the ability to put tabs to sleep after some time (you pick how long and what sites never get slept).

It seems lighter on resources than Chrome - and the company making it isn't one of the "gather all user data" giants.

The only potential downside is that Edge was written to also be a PDF reader. You can install your own, make that the system default, but Edge doesn't seem to be able to open a PDF with an alternate reader/editor - and leave the PDF in temporary storage. Minor nit, but it might get in the way of someone using Adobe's DC products to run a workflow. Personally, I don't find deleting unwanted PDFs out of my Downloads folder to be onerous - but I might if there were dozens daily.

>>AdBlock: This extension blocks ads.

I prefer uBlock Origin over AdBlock - and uMatrix gives you direct control over what resources each webpage can load.