I use Google Chrome mainly because I need it for my job (web development) and therefore almost all of the time.

I keep fighting against all the google servics, trying to keep them as muted and blocked as possible. One annoying thing is that I always have to update rules in Little Snitch after every minor chrome update.

I tried to install Chromium directly from the Chromium project website (precompiled installers) [1] just to find out that at the very first execution it tries to connect to Google...

Then I tried out Brave, but it also is full of Google's stuff.

Does anyone have a usefull alternative for web developers? I need to develop on the chromium browser engine but without all the - from my perspective - unecessary google services baked in (I don't use google services at all).

[1] https://chromium.woolyss.com/download/#mac

Thanks and have a nice sunday.