Tom Scott was not happy with Brave. They were collecting ad revenue for Youtubers who had never opted into their platform.
He had to go make a stink to their CEO, and finally after lots of pushing back, the CEO ceded that maybe this is not the best thing to do!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
Tom Scott ended up being happy with Brave resolving an early product misstep.
You should really be across an issue - and its resolution - before deciding to use it to cast shade on a software project.
For more reasonable-minded developer folk Eich addressed this again recently on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1139384765700685824