>I'm not a superfan of the information I imagine Google collects from my using Chrome, but the browser itself is just too good to give up.

If you don't want to send information back to Google, don't use Chrome.

Use Chromium instead. It's Chrome, but without the spyware, and only has the open-source components.

It won't work for Netflix though, but for all your other browsing, it should work exactly the same as Chrome. Keep Chrome around for Netflix.