> It also might signal that brave is looking to become a much broader company besides their current browser-crypto-ads thing, which is worrying for privacy

Soft agree, while noting that from their perspective, browsers are not a profitable offering, so they likely _need_ to expand to a broader product offering, without grant funding. Google has their obvious reasons for being in the browser market, Firefox receives grants if I remember correctly, Safari I assume only exists so Apple can attempt to keep people in their walled garden of software offerings. How do the maintainers of Brave get to make a living? Either by selling you something or selling you. I'd rather them try to sell me something, personally.

That said, I'm a current Brave user that still has one foot in the door for Firefox. If they keep this up, I might be back.