This is why I use Firefox. In case where I have to use something chromium based (because Cloudflare hates Firefox, apparently), I use Brave.

I don't believe it ever does so without first asking for permission?

It did it without my permission, it's a small model to rename and group tabs, though, no more than 50M in size.

	▲	fragmede 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		wait, hang on, I can't be the only person with 300 tabs open for whom that would actually be useful

Use seamonkey or palemoon