Pyro

You hit the nail right on its head! It's pretty bad that there is no skip all option, and for some of them you have to manually uncheck before continuing.

I'm in the same situation as you where I often work on fresh virtual machines, and so I see this a lot too.

The performance is pretty on-par with other major browsers now, but it is the obscene amount of popups built into the browser that irritates me.

The Pixel experience being stock Android without any bloatware appeals to me.

I've also always rooted all of my Android devices, and the Pixel has been one of the easiest to do so, though this advantage would only be relevant to a small minority of users.

Hasn't this been the case for a looong time?