Meanwhile Mozilla is showing signs of serious, systemic internal org issues, and no problem? [2]
It's pretty clear a user / privacy-first model is central to Brave's mission, so these drive-by comments griping loudly about minor, historical issues never feel intellectually compelling.
[1] https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269317625915400192
Meanwhile, they also fund novel privacy and security research [1], including preventing advanced fingerprinting. In essence, the maintain a patch set on top of Chromium (the open source base of Chrome, that Edge also builds on) which more convincingly respects user privacy, security, and choice[2][3][4]. See how much effort they put into keeping Brave Ads convincingly private [5].
Each of these is less intrusive than changes (to stay recent and relevant) include direct partnership for promotions [6].
Or to base beliefs on a series of news reports that sound bad, see a longer list [7], though it's quite noisy list.
[1]: https://brave.com/research/
[2]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/14942
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Learning_of_Cohorts
[4]: https://brave.com/why-brave-disables-floc/
[5]: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026361072-Bra...
[6]: https://itsfoss.com/firefox-looking-glass-controversy/
[7]: https://chefkochblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/03/mozilla-histor...