This comment is just irresponsible.

>Different flavour of mystery sauce

There's no "mystery sauce". It's completely open-source.

>You're still having all the analytics captured, it just goes to somebody with far less scrutiny than Google.

Brave's completely open about its analytics, and they're designed specially to be privacy-preserving. (No, it's not some naive "anonymous identifier".)

https://brave.com/privacy-preserving-product-analytics-p3a/

And you can also turn them completely off.