Come on, it was 6 years ago, they have apologized since then. Firefox also had slip-ups like pop-up ads in 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36073619 and ToS backlash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251762. Give Brave another try!
Brave is a Thiel-funded, VC-owned private company with far more egregious monetization efforts.
Ultimately I know everything at Mozilla is completely controlled by the mission-driven non-profit parent -- something they've recently double-downed on.
Brave does not have those same assurances and cannot be trusted.