I myself have a fork of Brave from forever ago. Pouring through that is like God handing you the Akashic Record and telling you to read everyone's life whoever existed alphabetically. Its a lot to sift through on your lonesome with no familiarity. Brave prides itself on the same things Firefox already does with a cryptocurrency wallet shoved in your face every home screen. I would just recommend using Firefox on Linux with User-Agent switcher installed for things that want to see a chromium browser. Its the same privacy with no bullshit crypto scams. Usage of any chromium probably aids Google's web takeover in someway or another.

Long time Brave user here! This list of chromium features changed for privacy reasons may ease your fears. One of the founders of Brave, Brendan Eich, was actually CTO of Mozilla (firefox) for a time, as well as the creator of the JavaScript programming language used in web development. One of the large reasons he left to found Brave was that he became disenfranchised with unethical handling of user data. Before the first line of Brave code was written it was dedicated to providing a safe, private user experience.

All the claims that say Brave isn't a privacy-respecting browser are false because all the available data proves otherwise

They hate the company and ignore all the information that says it is a good browser, they can't judge it objectively, it is like hating someone because you hate their "bad" parents you see how wrong it is? This is a very biased judgment

>Just because Google maintains chromium doesn’t mean that chromium browsers have to track you.

You are 100% correct but some can't accept that.

Also Brave provides a list of the changes they make in Chromium, and it's an open-source browser, and the cryptocurrency stuff that you can easily disable and hide doesn't take away anything from this.

I should note that I switched back to Firefox today not because it is better (it is not better, it is better in some aspects, privacy, and performance not being one of them), but because I won't just sit and watch Google having a full monopoly over the internet, we saw and still seeing what they are willing to do when they have full control over the internet (manifest v3 and WEI), this is me doing what I can against Google's monopoly as using a chromium-based browser does contribute to their monopoly, you can say this won't change much I'll say I don't care because I believe it is still the right thing to do, I'll do the right thing even if it won't change much