* DNS leaks in VPN mode that were reported to them and fixed in nightly builds but not pushed to a public build until the issue attracted attention in social media
* inserting referral codes into numerous URLs (most of them cryptocurrency related). They've shifted to silently inserting headers when you hit partner websites that identify you as a Brave browser user
* removing ads from sites to put its own ads in place of them
* collecting "donations" on content creator's pages, without notice or consent...and pocketing the money if the creator doesn't "claim" the donations
* whitelisting Facebook, Twitter, and other tracking
* telemetry that cannot be disabled, that includes "non-personally-identifying" usage data
* collecting Brave Rewards program crypto-tokens requires providing extensive personal information to their crypto-wallet partners and "may" require fucking biometric verification and authorizing sharing that data with an facial-recognition-based ID verification service.
Just use one of the modified builds of Firefox, like Librefox, if you want greater privacy than what Firefox provides out of the box.