It’s Chromium based, has a history of doing sketchy things, and spite.

I had a little book with the settings for almost every brand and model of hard drive that existed when published.

Never. I hate Brave more than the few ads that get through on iOS with AdGuard or the recently released uBlock Origin Lite.

People still use Ad Block Plus? Didn’t it start allowing sponsored ads like 10 or 15 years ago?