It’s been a steady exodus since less than a year ago when they removed the bit from their TOS about never selling your personal data and promising to protect your privacy.

I believe the recent surge has been the forced integration of AI features which are on by default (arguments were made to at least make them opt-in and not opt-out). Such features compromise privacy and security.

They’re actively doing everything they can to monitize the consumer and going against their supposed stance as the ‘privacy focused’ browser.