But it appears that Apple already stole your thunder on consumer privacy, and that they will be Very Hard to catch up to; private relay is basically TOR lite for grandma, private email is email aliases that ordinary users can use, etc.

Plus no discussion on ad blocking extensions or password management?

If this is a browser that is launching on Apple’s ecosystem while charging $$, then you have to swing harder than just vaguely insinuating that other companies are sellouts on privacy.

And is there any plan to open source so that communities can actually vet anything?

> Free browsers typically make their money from search engine royalties.

Please name names and map them to that.

I know that Chrome is owned by Google. I also know that Firefox makes money from Google for having it as the default search engine. I configure my browser to use DDG. How is your product any better in terms of preserving my data?

> and that we will never monetise our users' data.

This is already telling; you're admitting that you gather user's data. Is there a clear consent form for that in place? Does your application and your company's data handling conform to GDPR rules?