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Firefox at least exposes an endless amount of toggles to tweak pretty much every behaviour the browser has.
This is includes settings for removing or disabling pretty much every integration with Firefox services.
See for example: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
On KDE, Falkon.
On Gnome, "Web".
On macOS, Safari may not pass your "non-corporate" requirement, but it's spiritually non-corporate, and functionally "just a browser". It's also wicked fast and extremely light on your resources.
On many platforms, "ungoogled-chromium" may satisfy your needs. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Yeah, something similar to "Killed by Google". Maybe we need a template on Github for such sites to catalog bullshit, lord knows there's a lot of categories of bullshit we can catalog...
Oh actually they do have their source available: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle
Note that KHTML is dead: https://github.com/KDE/khtml/tree/master
The writing was on the wall as KDE moved to first QtWebkit and then the Blink based QtWebEngine.
(Bug reporter here)
I don't know exactly what anyone else experienced. What I experienced is: I was away from my computer and noticed that my Syncthing[0] folders were out of date, so I used KDE Connect[1] to make sure Syncthing was running on my PC, which opens a tab connecting to Syncthing on the local machine in the default browser - Firefox in my case. Some time later, I unlocked my PC and found the advertisement on top of my Syncthing admin page.
So yes, it popped something up while I was AFK, though I can't guess whether it would have done so if I hadn't remotely triggered a new tab. Needless to say, I was very surprised to see that behavior from Firefox, and even more surprised that despite posts to reddit and HN complaining, I didn't find a report in Bugzilla.
[0] https://syncthing.net/
[1] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/