my understanding is, Brave founder fell out with google (or was it mozilla?) & struck out on his own to make a privacy oriented browser.
I've been on brave for... almost 2 years? Happy with it, though once in a while I find a bug, page won't load right.... also does weird things with copy/pastes from places like
Mami's -- it keeps the black background & white text colors, & I need to go through & edit so it's readable here.