Brave doesn't ask you to trust it with more and more data; we explicitly do not want any of your data. This issue did not impact user data or privacy in any way either.
It's nice of you to stop by HN when your keywords are hit so you can rebut each comment, but it will stand in the record as PR.
Simply put, Brave takes calculated risks to expand its revenue/marketshare. I only hear about it when things go wrong. It must be worth it, because it keeps happening.
There are many facets to the Brave browser and the server-side Brave services it uses that would allow the Brave company to covertly collect all kinds of data from its users; Brave simply asks users to just trust that they don't want or aren't collecting that data.
If one wouldn't trust a particular company with their data, I don't see why one would be any more likely to trust a company simply claiming they're not collecting said data.
I do appreciate the few features designed to make it technically impossible for Brave to collect some/most of that feature's user data from, though.
Simply put, Brave takes calculated risks to expand its revenue/marketshare. I only hear about it when things go wrong. It must be worth it, because it keeps happening.