Ask HN: Are modern browsers just not that good?

Firefox calls home, and has Firefox Sync and Pocket integrated.

Edge calls home, and is tied into your Microsoft account. (Along with the rest of Windows 10.)

Who knows what Chrome is sending back to Google, probably way more than I fear.

Safari is close, but only exists on macOS and integrates with iCloud.

The closest I've found far is "GNOME Web" (which used to be called Epiphany). It's Just A Browser! But as far as I know, being a GTK application, it doesn't function well outside of the GNOME desktop.

The world needs a new, open source, cross-platform, Just A Browser.

For instance I wrote something that downloads weather radar ahead of time so I can see something better than what is on TV weather as compared to the many weather radar web sites which practice a form of "responsive design" which means it looks fubar on all browsers all of the time.

I am getting sick of seeing Firefox put up as many boxes as it possibly can for me to X out advertising every cause in the world except the idea that hiring one more intern in San Francisco is doing the devil's work.