So the argument is: 1. The guy who started Brave has political opinions and has financially backed them. 2. He built a browser that blocked ads and then tried to monetize that. 3. His monetization scheme doesn't make much money for anybody but the company and makes it difficult for others to monetize. 4. The browser tried to increase revenue by steering users to affiliates (but did a poor job of it).

So to sum up, Brave is doing the same thing as Google except that they never figured out how to effectively serve ads to users, so they actually protect users from ads.

Stop using Brave browser. Seriously.