It really isn't that bad. I'm say this why comparing it to all the telemetry and ads in Firefox. Sure you can turn that stuff off but it takes effort to harden Firefox.
I read the meme & I was like...what the hell's wrong with Brave?? Good product IIRC.
I don't use it anymore, only because it's too niche (and isn't it still basically Chrome, reskinned?). We can't make enemies of every fucking browser because of every stupid little thing.
I'm now on Mozilla Firefox, partially because of this community & its push, and now I'm hearing "Mozilla bad, or will be bad, because advertisements". 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨 Okay?? So who's fucking good? Is anyone good? Can someone, somewhere, create a good & secure browser without issues?