I've been actively supporting Brave (and Firefox) exactly until moment I stumbled into very unexpected news about Brave. After that I support Firefox only.
"Brave browser is asking for donations on behalf of other people" (2018)
There's no valid reason to use a product, adopting totally unethical and scammer techniques. One more lesson on topic "If you don't pay, you're the product".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027