The only people I've ever met that use brave are evangelical republicans who are basically Qnuts. I'd rather tailor my own version of chromium than use what Q suggested.
Brave is now my default recommendation to “normies” as it’s easiest to set up and reduce the Bonnard of ads and it doesn’t track you.
I used to recommend Firefox but it’s huge and bloated and isn’t as easy to use any more.
It’s funny because it seems your social network is a bit weird if you have such a limited intersection of Brave+Qnuts.
Interestingly, I don’t know a single person irl who is a “qnut” (or at least admits it to me) but I know lots of sysadmin types with a decent chunk who use Brave. Probably 50% are “de googling.”